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.