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“History doesnt repeat itself but it does rhyme” - Mark Twain

The movie “idiocracy” is the single most accurate prediction movie... hands down!

Originally published in London in 1892, Golf in the Year 2000 is the story of Alexander John Gibson, a golf afficionado who "fell into a trance on the night of Thursday, March 24, 1892" and awoke 108 years later on March 25 in the year 2000. This amazing book predicted television, digital watches, bullet trains, and more.

Mentioned books: George Orwell 1984 4:18 Jules Verne Travel To The Center Of The Earth 6:29 Jules Verne 20000 Leagues Under The Sea 6:33 Jules Verne From The Earth To The Moon(1856) 6:34 Isaac Asimov I Robot (rly good) 8:57 Herbert George Wells War Of The Worlds 9:07 Herbert George Wells The Shape Of Things To Come 9:16 Neil R Jones Space War (not sure) 10:18 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 11:12 Hugo Gernsback Ralph 124 C41+ Victor Appleton Tom Sviwft And His Electric Shock Rifle 15:30

Science fiction authors try to predict the future, but end up designing it.

Someone needs to tell the government that Orwell's book was a warning not a how to manual.

Now I’m not sure if these authors “predicted” anything or if the coming generations of scientists were influenced by the “predictions” 🧐 Great video

Imagine being frozen for 40,000,000 years and waking up to *awwwwww hell nah, what is SHE doing her?!?*

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” ~{Mark Twain}~

Yoooh you tricked me into watching your whole sponsor, didn't even realise it was one until the end. Well played man well played

As always, a good presentation. I remember a discussion with a learned professor and him totally rejecting the thought of science fiction writers predicting the future. He has passed on since but I would have liked him see this presentation - vindictive of me, I know, but ...

Your quality contributions and comedic input are both fascinating, informative and so entertaining!! Thank you!

"You don't freeze both your wives, just your favourite one" - Thoughty2, 2020

When I was young I read a sci fi short story about a tablet that two children found that taught them things on its screen. When my granddaughter told me about a a thing with a screen that could hold many books in it, before I could believe it, she had to show one to me. I live in a sci fi world!

I found this episode very enjoyable as you featured some of my favorite Sci-Fi novels and authors. You did not mention though that when Professor Jamison was reanimated 40 million years later, it was in a mechanical body - like the illustration of the Zoromes that you used. Only his brain was saved. One of my favorite book series in the 60s was the Lensmen series by E.E. (Doc) Smith. His heroes had "lenses" that were worn like watches which allowed communication - albeit by telepathy and which also allowed mind reading. Something I would hope is not invented. He missed the boat entirely though by thinking vacuum tubes would still be in use in the era of space travel.

"the book were crystals with recorded contents. They can be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but has only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it. " Stanisław Lem, 1961

His video titles are like bitcoin, they’re difficult to trace back.

"You dont freeze both your wives, just your favorite one" 😂 I can't

excellent piece, i enjoyed it greatly. I was surprised since you were covering Science Fiction writers, and what came to pass from their Writings, that you didn't mention the very first novel to combine Science and Fiction "the Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly in 1816 which predicted organ and limb transplants, or Phillip K. Dick and Androids, but I'm sure there's only so much one can fit into a video that has so very much to offer. I love your body of work, educating and entertaining at the same time. Your cadence is exquisite, a pleasure to the ear.

I just love this man -makes my day . Evrery piece of work is so cleverly delivered and full of great content x

"This Old [and New] Book[s, movies, people, and TV shows] Predicted [or inspired] Everything" 0:22 Leonardo DaVinci 3:24 Minority Report 4:14 1984 6:23 Jules Verne 8:11 Metropolis 9:08 HG Wells 9:38 Arthur C Clark 10:19 Niel R Jones 11:19 Aldous Huxley 12:05 Ralph124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback 12:55 2001 A Space Odyssey 14:17 Star Trek 15:31 Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle by Victor Appleton 16:43 Fahrenheit 451 17:42 4338 by Vladimir Odoesvky 19:00 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner 20:42 The Simpsons

"We haven't been enslaved by skynet" 2020 ain't over yet

I very much enjoy your inputs on modern time as well as giving the history. And how when your videos are sponsors, you tie it in very well with essentially the core of you and your channel.

I loved Jules Vern from my childhood :) His story of not going out and designing cars, submarines, 80 days around world, etc fascinated me : ) he is been a great inspiration in my life :) thank you

If there's 1 in a billion chance to predict the future, there are still 7 people who will!

Life hack: have no online presence

Love your videos my dude! Always informative, and very well made!

Re-reading Jules Verne's Time Machine, I immediately thought his ' Eloi', could indeed be a future prediction about society; the stupid will inherit the Earth ahhhh!

He says 42 in the begining because that’s how many times he changes the title of the video.

it's always important to remember that every great scientific ivention first started with an idea which came from a wild and vivid imagination.

Even an episode of the Jetsons cartoon in the 1960's has one of Elroy's friends watching TV on a wristwatch. Fascinating episode as always..

Dr. Floyd, as portrayed by Roy Scheider (as shown), was in the 1984 sequel "2010: The Year We Make Contact". In the original "2001" movie, Dr Heywood Floyd was played by William Sylvester.

"He made a serious novice mistake: You don't freeze both of your wifes, you only freeze your favorite one." This man is spitting straight facts

I can’t believe you got through this whole thing without mentioning A Logic Named Joe, which predicted google and search engines in general, something like Chrome OS, A form of cloud computing, and a concept not unlike Wikipedia.

Always love your videos! Thanks!

Another intriguing, educational and entertaining piece. Your channel rocks!

"Telephot" also sounds like a prediction of OnlyFans.

There used to be a TV program in the early 60's that had a maid robot, a flying car, food replicator, mobile phone and a robot dog. You wanna know what this TV program was....The Jetsons!

That was fascinating I love stories on predictions of the future some are so accurate it's scary thanks again from Melbourne Australia

I often think about the "Dick Tracy" comic strip and his 2-way wrist radio, and how unreal that seemed at the time.

When Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines were mentioned I immediately thought 'Shoot! Shoot the flying demon!' I've played a lot of Assassin's Creed during lock down. Lol.

I'm glad YT peeps such as yourself do what you do. TY

Verne described what eventually became the periscope so well there was legitimate court intrigue about whether the person credited for inventing it was allowed to patent it or not

_A Princess of Mars,_ written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, absolutely astounded me with its mechanical predictions. The entire Barsoom series is chock full of stunningly accurate predictions. One that comes to mind is what we would now call instant messaging, or email

Lester Del Rey wrote a book, “Rocket Jockey” back in 1952 which opened with the memorable sentence “When Major Armstrong landed on the Moon in 1969…”

Thanks for the great video. Well done well researched

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An actual social rating system is a terrifying concept. It's already rough having to live in a culture where a "credit score" determines your fate, but at least that's sort of a "first world worry" that you can mitigate or even escape from if you're lucky. Even though the financial situations you're born into heavily influence how your credit score plays out, you still have a quasi-blank-slate when you're born into that system. There are so many parameters like that forced onto us by the existing societies we are born into, and we're all more or less told that we just have to deal with it because we are also born into so many supposed benefits and privileges (everyone is expected to contribute to society or die trying, etc.); just imagine being born into what amounts to a numbers-game caste system. Your parents were both ranked at three, you're born at three until you can earn a higher number, ah, but you've got an invisible disability that's difficult or impossible to properly diagnose, so you'll inevitably be ranked down for merely drawing breath.

If you brought DaVinci to this time, and sat him in front of a laptop, about 15 minutes later he would be using it like a professional, and saying; "I think I have some ways to make this work faster."

One of your best Arran! Amazing!

Im pretty sure the "digital wall" mentioned when talking about Fahrenheit 451 was actually predicting the flatscreen tv, not a social hub like facebook.

"eating too much and playing the Sims" Me: I'm in this photo and I don't like it

" if youve been eating too much and playing the sims" i didnt know i was attacked

You make some of the most quality youtube videos. Job well done sir. You truly are a master of your craft. :)

I remember reading a book years ago which featured a computer which could be with around the neck and was disguised as a necklace. It used a hologram for a screen and projected a keyboard onto any flat surface using a laser. Of course we do have laser keyboards now though no doubt the rest of it is a few years away yet, though computers can be fitted into a usb drives. I suppose it was also a prediction of wearable technology.

That was the SMOOTHEST sponsor segway i've ever seen

Damn man. You slid that advertisement in there so slick, I didnt even know it was an ad until you said to look at the link below, and then the little message box appeared at the bottom. wow.

I love this guy, his voice and information are just so soothing.

Love your vids quality quality love it!

“Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye.” - Mother Shipton (1641).

I like how the heat ray in HG Wells' War of the Worlds is pretty much a perfect description of a weaponised laser.

Vernes first "SF" novel was published in 1863. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was first publised in 1818, the first SF novekl, its plot driven by "science."

Actually, the first science-fiction book is Mary Shelly's Frankenstein published in 1812.

Many of these predictions are less “look how accurately the science fiction author predicted this technology” and more “look how many engineers are science fiction fans who really wanted one or another cool gadget he read about as a kid”.

Card's "Ender's Game" series had some interesting predictions about the internet

Hands down one of your greatest episodes T2. Ooh... D'oh! Hope that's not a copyright infringement :(. Bravo!

Been ages since I've seen 2001, but, the bit you show of Doctor Floyd putting in the Credit Card, or at least the actor you put with the name, is from 2010 The Year We Make Contact. That's the sequel from 1984, also a great film, though totally different in style. Fun and interesting video aside from that. Kinda wish you'd have thrown a list of all the books/movies/shows you mention in the about section, easier to look back at the ones I've not gotten around to reading yet.

"You don't freeze both your wives..just your favourite one" damn!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thoughty2: Its more important than ever before to protect your data Me: *Something's* *wrong,* *I* *can* *feel* *it*

Loved this. Great video.

I think Fahrenheit 451 is more accurate to today than 1984 was. People living life glued to screens having “conversations” with their “family” and no one reads books anymore. And it’s not to hard to imagine physical paper being outlawed (for conservation)

3:30 another part of the movie that has come true is "pre-crime" in china they collect so much info about citizens they believe they can predict who might commit what crime in the future...scary shit

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I was waiting for Stand on Zanzibar the whole time and literally yelled when it came up. That's the book I always reference when talking about scifi predicting the future despite there being much better known examples to choose from.

Sci fis are fascinating for what they predict (& also the ideas they supply to science). I read (imo) a brilliant sci fi novel a long time ago that I have been trying to find again ever since. I think it was written in 70s-80s, and published by one of the well known sci fi publishers (it may have been a Nebula or Hugo award winner or nominee). It doesn't seem to be well known though, and I have forgotten the title and author, but it's one of the most epic sci fis, in terms of scale, I think I've ever read (and I've read most of the classics). It also makes some predictions, or at least puts forth some interesting future scenarios. The story starts with 70s-80s era earth being revolutionised by the discovery of a new element/super-material which not only settles the energy crisis on earth but also skyrockets humanity into the stars and enables the widespread colonisation of the solar system. As the story progresses it jumps from era to era, detailing how humanity and societies, with ever growing populations, might evolve out in space and on other planets, moons, etc. Then, a big plot twist comes. Without giving too much away (just in case someone here might want to find this book and read it, and hopefully tell me its name/author) it later involves humanity embarking on an epic journey further out into the galaxy by hollowing out asteroids and creating giant self-sustaining mobile galaxy-exploring colony space-craft. A number of them set off in different directions to various hopeful nearby star systems on generation-long journeys. I can't remember much more, except that the story eventually stretches billions of years into the future, a very daring thing to do for a sci fi author, requiring great imagination. The asteroid colony space-craft are what impressed me the most in the book, and its grand scale, though I recall that there is also an idea in it very similar to the internet and social media, and/or what it might become (eg, a collective/hive-mind). There's so much in it though, and I'm constantly reminded of it. Wish I knew its name.

Thoughty, thank you for this video. I have stated elsewhere, but will say again, your excursions of late into more "edgy" areas of investigation has raken insight, farsight, curiosity, daring, faith in people, and courage. So your having done so has given me faith that perhaps all is not lost for humanity. I once designed and then taught an English class called,, "Science Fiction, a Literature of Prediction." It wasn't terribly popular, but enjoyed some not small enrollment of about 15 students. I didn't overwhelm them but instead wished to challenge them. For I believe a single person can make a difference, if the right action is carried out at the right moment. Anyhow, your taking this topic up is inspiring! Excellent!

"I Robot" wasn't a single story, but a collection of short stories sold as an anthology. Seriously, go read it! The stories are excellent!

Thoughty2 the man bro great video and also the reasearch behind all well done.

I think Stanislaw Lem is also worth mentioning in the topic od sci-fi predictions. His most famous one is ebook

I think “A collection of books that predicted the future” would have been a more correct title, though not as catchy I must admit.

I predict your mustache will go down in history as the most iconic mustache of all time. Thanks for the video!

I read this book when i was 15 y old in Russian , was fascinated with predictions that came through and even told it to my children , however remembered only part of this book title and didn't remember who wrote it. Thank you for this knowledge now.

Wonderfully detailed discussion of the myriad of predictions that have come true

Books & Authors List: Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian. Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report 1956, American. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949, English. Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon 1865, French. Thea von Harbou, Metropolis 1925, German. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot 1950, Russian. H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come 1933, English. Neil R. Jones, The Jameson Satellite 1931, American. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 1932, English. Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+ 1911, American. Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 A Space Odyssey 1968, English. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 1888, American. Star Trek, 1967-present. "Victor Appleton" pseudonym, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle 1911. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 1953, American. Vladimir Odoyevsky, The Year 4338 1835, Russian. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar 1968, English.

This kind of "future" we live in is disconnecting people from reality.

My first viewing of your stuff and I really like your lighthearted angle. So sad that the powers that be are inspired by literature and Hollywood. ..etc,etc!

God I remember when a full touch screen phone was making me uneasy as I didn’t think it would work as well! I don’t think they make anything other than touch screens these days! Many of us have lived through such an amazing timeline for technological advancements that it’s nearly impossible to improve what achieved thus far. I only say that as I saw a documentary about our biggest and best supercomputer that exists and how it’s nearly impossible to make anything better than it. Meaning we’ve got our glass ceiling. It’s been a helluva ride, I could go on, but I honestly don’t think it should go any further than already. People are already getting nervous enough, and yes he’s right about them spying on us. I was on the phone with a friend from another state and I said something about something that I had interest in. Less than 10 minutes later ads for those very exact same items were coming to me. Not coincidentally.

Small minds have significantly deterred the greatness that humanity could become.

What I need, is a self diagnosis machine at home so I don't have to wait 56 hours to see a doctor.

What about this forgotten piece:The book "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots), written by Karel Čapek, is a Czech science fiction novel from 1920. In this book, the term "robot" was first used in history. The story is set in a factory where artificial people, known as robots, are created using biotechnology. These robots gradually become employees of the factory but also exhibit some negative traits, leading to tragic consequences. The importance of the book lies in introducing the word "robot" into literature and later into everyday language. This book also introduced concepts that became crucial in science fiction literature, such as the ethics of creating artificial beings and their relationship with humans. "R.U.R." was the first book to open the discussion about automation, artificial intelligence, and the future of technology. Author Karel Čapek thus predicted the development of technology and its impact on society, making it a key work in the world of science fiction literature.

"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury sent shivers down my spine when I read it as a teenager but still felt like a fantasy. Now, it seems as a not-so-distant horror reality.

Social credit scoring system is just a bad idea. "Freedom of speech" is completely out the window

“We haven’t been enslaved by sky net yet” 2020: hold my beer

9:35 hahahahahahaha that clip must be from a history channel production lol. it looks like they made the helmet out of paper mache!!!

Headphones, even little ones like earbuds, existed in 1953. Bradbury wasn't inventing that. They simply weren't wireless yet, but that's no great leap. That's right at the time when TVs were showing how anything (movies) would eventually be wireless.

"He made a mistake, he should've only frozen his *favourite* wife" 🤣 that made me laugh

Whenever you said we might finally admit we don’t give a shit about other people’s kids and pets you earned my sub lmao

Surprised there’s no mention of “The Machine Stops” by E.M.Forster, which predicted video calls, computer-controlled household items, listening to a global broadcast of concert, essentially both the “Internet” and “the Internet of Things”… in 1911! Also, H.G.Wells’ “A Dream of Armageddon”, which uncannily predicted the rise of a German dictator, the symbols his followers wore as armbands or carried as flags, delta-wing aircraft and rear gunners. I thought he’d written it in the 1930’s, but no - it was first published in 1894, when the Wright brothers were not yet contemplating powered flight!

Aldus Huxley’s “Brave new World” is a spot on description of our world.