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These predictions are interesting, but spectacularly off in some respects. For example: ... The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The boo
by apo 8y ago
These predictions are interesting, but spectacularly off in some respects. For example:
... The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it.
Predicting the reading tablet without predicting the Internet and wireless networking to feed it seems like a half-prediction.
This does raise an interesting question: which writer from the 1960s had the best track record of predicting the world we now live in?
- abecedarius 8y agoClarke's Profiles of the Future was off on a whole lot, but still impressive. There's a recent book Where is my flying car? with the thesis that old sci-fi visions of the future could've been accurate if not for unnecessary stagnation in key areas like nuclear power. The 70s were the turning point in this view, which I think isn't crazy, though the book was pretty self-indulgent. Reviewed here: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2018/10/14/where-is-my-flying-car/ http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2018/10/14/wh...