Tomorrow’s technology is no dream, for the future is already here
Being a science fiction writer is hard work these days. One can hardly invent a technology that won’t appear in our homes in a few years’ time. Perhaps this is why one of the most outstanding representatives of the genre in recent years, Liu Cixin – in successive volumes of his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy – had to look ahead a countless number of years, even reaching as far as the end of time. To put it simply: the everyday technology of the future is already here
In the 1980s, video phones appeared in any movie about the future, from the Jetsons to Back to the Future II. Now, forty years later, everyone has such a device in their pockets, although forty years from a futurist vision to implementation is no big deal. Today, concepts associated with popular science fiction can become reality within days or weeks. Technologies around the nearest corner prove how much we are already living in the future.
Imagine yourself sitting in the back seat of a car. You are wearing goggles through which you are watching a live football match, switching freely between onsite video cameras, viewing actions taking place on the pitch from angles inaccessible via traditional television. It goes without saying that there is nobody sitting behind the steering wheel.
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