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Ask HN: Best sci-fi for near term future?
I have always thought some of William Gibson's more recent stuff could become a reality in the near term future.
What other sci-fi authors do you think also do well with near term future predictions?
- haxzie 3y agoProbably with all the LLMs out there and AI gadgets popping out, it wouldn't be too far to have a new kind of Human Computer Interaction Interface, maybe not voice, but maybe even thoughts or some sort of new ways of interactions, subtle but way more context aware and versatile with the amount of input required to be very very less.
- B5C8ECB24DB47D1 3y agoRavage by René Barjavel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes
- BMc2020 3y agoCharles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.
- philipkglass 3y agoLater he wrote more down-to-earth visions of the near future in Halting State and Rule 34. He originally planned it as a trilogy, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel)#Sequel_cancellation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel)#Sequel_cancell... Following the revelations by Edward Snowden, Stross announced that there would be no third book in the planned trilogy. "Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?)."
- giaour 3y agoThe society depicted in Stand on Zanzibar doesn't seem that far off from today's world.
- j0hnyl 3y agoPhilip K Dick when he writes about paying the door to open is getting pretty close.