Science Fiction and the Future

C2 – Proficient

Can science fiction actually help predict the future? Watch the video to find out.

Discussion Questions:

1. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. What does that mean?
2. Do you think science fiction can help predict the future?
3. What technological advancements from science fiction do you think are very realistic and possible to exist in the future?

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3 replies on “Science Fiction and the Future”

1. Technology from the future, will be based on core concepts that we do not know right now. As is explained in the video, if you told someone from the nineteenth century that a (nuclear) substance could case a massive explosion, he will not believe it because he doesn’t even know what is the nuclear energy. It is the same as telling someone nowadays that, in the future, peanuts cure the cancer.
2. I think that science fiction helps to model the future. By telling someone that in the future cars will have wings and fly, that will condition that someone to design a car with wings that fly in the future. However, if nothing is told to that designer, maybe he could reach another design more similar to an actual drone than a car.
3. I think that flying cars, but with drone technology, are very probable in the future. Also, space traveling could be a reality in 20 years. I also believe that inmortality, or eternal youth, is also achievable in the near future.

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As is explained in the video, if you told someone from the nineteenth century that a (nuclear) substance could case a massive explosion, he will not believe it because he doesn’t even know what is the nuclear energy.

As explained in the video, if you told someone from the nineteenth century that a nuclear substance could cause a massive explosion, they probably would not believe it because they wouldn’t even know what nuclear energy is.

Until your next entry!

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As is explained in the video, if you told someone from the nineteenth century that a (nuclear) substance could case a massive explosion, he will not believe it because he doesn’t even know what is the nuclear energy.

As explained in the video, if you told someone from the nineteenth century that a nuclear substance could cause a massive explosion, they would not have possibly believed it because they didn’t even know what nuclear energy was.

Keep going!

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