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Predicted in _Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson? Probably elsewhere, too.
by derwiki 3y ago
Predicted in _Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson? Probably elsewhere, too.
- tiahura 3y agoSpider-Man Spider-Tracer 1964
- gnarlouse 3y agoI mean, aren't we kind of at a point where "predicted in Xyz science fiction novel" is a bit passe? Mankind is currently grappling with absolutely wild developments from every direction: the advent of AI, the collapse of birthrates globally, the advent of quantum cryptography threatening to make everybody's internet activity an open book, and the collapse of global ecosystems. If anything, Neal Stephenson did nothing more than mention a simple idea that was practically laying on the ground in broad daylight, and technology finally caught up to the point where it's implementable and deployable.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> aren't we kind of at a point where "predicted in Xyz science fiction novel" is a bit passe? No. Plenty are wrong. And both science fiction and the technological frontier are constantly advancing. Your argument is close to those who argue everything was predicted in their holy book of choice.
- aaron695 3y agoThe Diamond Age published in 1995? An idea that's 60 year+ old? The Diamond Age had specialized drones to shoot them and used barbs and nanotech - "When they were shot out of the tag stat's nose, they sprouted cruel barbs at the nose and a simple empennage" The hard part is when you miss you don't hid a kid walking to school in the skull and kill or blind them. Pictures of the non-nano real life tech - https://www.google.com/search?q=GPS+darts+police&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=GPS+darts+police&tbm=isch The Diamond Age invented "magic", then missuses it constantly (vacuums and hydrogen/helium at normal atmosphere are all about the same). There is not much to see there for predictions, it's fun fiction.