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The best approach would be to write a book, comic book or novel "predicting" this stuff. In 30 years or so you'll be recognized as the most accomplished 'futuri
by armandososa 16y ago
The best approach would be to write a book, comic book or novel "predicting" this stuff. In 30 years or so you'll be recognized as the most accomplished 'futurist' in the history.
Oh I almost can hear the interviews:
-- How did you managed to describe the exact interface of the iPhone more than 30 years before its release ?
-- Well, I actually came from the future.
-- LOL! Let's make sure you don't get anywhere near the LHC then.
- noonespecial 16y agoBut futurists in no small part shape the future by writing about it. Those sci-fi fantasies we reveled in as children are what drives us to create technology today. I smell a paradox.
- rbanffy 16y agoI saw it being called "Star Trek Effect". I think it's a very nice name.
- maushu 16y agoFuturists and predicting stuff always made me twitch. Seriously. Check out any old movies or series and you will see that any technology is either obsolete or so vague that it can't be built. Using this line of thinking I came to the algorithm necessary to predict the future with a higher chance of success: First Step: Do it like we always do, predict the future. Spaceships, gadgets and so on. Second Step: Now get in the shoes of someone from that "time" and do the first step again. You now have, what I believe, a good prediction. Using this simple algorithm I now think that any spaceship with a single forward view screen (eg: star trek) is plain silly and it would make more sense to have view screens in every face of the bridge (with holographic floating screen or something) to have more freedom.