Did science fiction predict AirPods? Neuralink? The death of God?
For this final episode of Season One, John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach give you what hacks call a listicle: three transcendently significant things prefigured in science fiction that definitely came true — and three that didn’t. Or haven’t yet. Prediction, as Niels Bohr said, is very hard.
Along the way:
- Thirteenth-century flying machines
- Victorians watching live war coverage on flat-screen TV
- elearning before there was elearning
- Verne, Wells, jetpacks, flying cars, prediction markets, transporter beams, universal nudism and Octavia Butler’s uncannily detailed vision of the Age of Trump.
That’s a wrap on season one. Let us know what you’ve enjoyed — and what you’d like to hear in future episodes. All suggestions considered.
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Music by Nick Dwyer recording as Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.
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