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I’ve gotten some really great questions about the video over at the blog
too, check out the discussion here:
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Still waiting for that hoverboard.
Interesting. Good content. Just stop trying being funny.
Science fiction TODAY is less brave, and (particularly in Cinema) tends
towards sensationalism in there being an apocalypse in every advancement.
If anyone can be said to retard scientific progress, it is the hyper-moral
latter day science fiction author, which, unfortunately, tend to gain
traction with nut jobs and those who do *not* fact check out of fear.
Consider how many legislators and religious whackos and just chomping at
the bit to stamp their name on anti-stem-cell bio research, and AI
development, but never lost an iota of sleep over the large Hadron
collider, largely because there is no catastrophe science fiction written
or filmed around it.
Google is the real Skynet.
the distinction between good sci-fi that comes true and bad “sci-fi” that
doesn’t is that the bad “sci-fi” is just fantasy with lasers and space
ships ect . star wars . fantasy stories can be very popular and make tons
of money but if you think about any of the technical aspects it all falls
apart . good sci-fi is about logical progressions and what we can do now
and the expectation of the direction of technology/nature . children of men
was good . id say it showed google glass v3 in one scene before google
glass existed
I believe that before the term “Science Fiction” became popular, several
authors called the genre “Speculative Fiction”. “Science Fiction” won
though, it is easier to say after all. 🙂
All the good science fiction I read is speculative.
Olaf Stapledon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon often gets
missed in these lists. His writing is right up there with HG Wells in
terms of the crazy predictions he makes. He invented Dyson spheres,
predicted genetic engineering, planetary terraforming, and tons of other
stuff.
He’s not very well known by the general public but he was very influential
on other sci-fi writers.
Of course he had some misses as well, like his book where there’s a
relationship menage-a-trois between two people and a hyperintelligent dog.
:/
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but how do we reverse entropy?
Now if only more people would use the internet for learning, rather than
boobies.
While it surely can’t be the answer for the dystopian predictions on this
list, I think we might also be underestimating the power of inspiration
from these sci fi authors. Ray Bradbury’s seashells might have inspired a
designer to create earbuds, for example. Discovery and inspiration are
forces that go hand in hand with invention.
Two very interesting videos about the nature of fiction.
The picture is an embedded video. The link takes you to a different video.
What is Fiction? (ft. War of the Worlds) | Idea Channel | PBS Digital
Studios
Technological advancement is often driven in a particular direction out of
a desire. We desire instant communication and a vast well of knowledge to
pull information from, because of this we created telephones and the
internet. We were working towards these goals because we desired them and
because we desired them there was money to be made from developing them,
which caused them to be funded. So when writing about the future its
possible that these writers wrote that these solutions existed because they
wanted them to exist or they thought that other people wanted them to
exist.
The writers didn’t need to speculate fully on how these things worked only
on what form they would take, this is a more simple task than imagining
technology that would exist, we just have to think about how we want
instant communication, or how we want a vast well of knowledge to pull
from. We want our instant communication mobile so that we can contact
people from anywhere and we want our knowledge delivered in multiple forms
to one device out of ease and efficiency.
Using this idea we can think about what we might want in the future, a
device which can create any meal that we desire at the touch of a button?
3D printed food. Being free of all disease and illness? Nano machines which
seek out and destroy foreign bodies.
I predict humans will be able to live underwater one day. Maybe 2075.
NOW THAT was baaaaaad television. I definitely enjoyed the theme music,
which had zero connection to the program. Really, really, really bad show.
So the solution is to blow the thing up?
At 16:01, his wizard engineer son is not convinced until he actually cuts
the board on the saw!
I was 12 years old when this aired. Lots of fun.
Jackson brought the box from Zeta Reticuli, the planet Serpo…..BTW they
also run on 120V @ 60 hz up there!
Generally, a more friendly world then. Enjoying the programme, thank you
for sharing.
Lots of fun! Thank you J.D.
Thanx, and Happy New year
It is amazing that just 56 years ago that the populas was so trusting of
their government. Today there is no way Anyone would allow the government
in on a finding like this – – Not because of greed, but because the
government is no longer the Friend of the Populas. The government nowadays
is just another super-corporation bent on dominance and control.
Special Security Div.?
Thanks for posting these old shows.They’re quaint & dated, but showed an
imagination and curiosity lacking in anything on tv today.I wonder how many
kids watched this in ’50s and were inspired to go into science?
How did Grandpa make it to be as old as he is ?
I saw this episode in the early 60’s. I remembered them taking about the
frozen helium. Thanks for showing this episode!
Lucky for them the power source wasn’t a kilogram of antimatter
don’t be messin’ with grandpa, he knows alien stuff when he sees it. As for
Mr. Jackson, he made the Pepsi commercial with the flaming hair.