Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

The #Future of #Technology: Speculating on #Sci-Fi Flicks and Real Life #Innovations #storytelling

6 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, two speakers reflect on how the accelerating pace of technological change makes it increasingly difficult to make reasonable predictions about the future. They observe that the most popular science‑fiction media tend to focus on near‑future settings that resonate with audiences, citing "Minority Report" as an example where many depicted technologies are already present or emerging today. The conversation highlights the challenge of forecasting in a rapidly evolving landscape and the role of near‑future sci‑fi as a lens for current innovations.

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And so I think that is a problem that the accelerating pace and the rapid changes are making it harder and harder to speculate about the future in any sort of reasonable way.
Definitely. But I think, you know, added to that, the most popular sci-fi tend to be near futures, you know, ones that really resonate with us, like Minority Report or something isn't, isn't you know, a wildly crazy space odyssey. It's something which is, you know, many of the things in it are actually technology that we have now.