Audio Books →All the Wonder That Would Be Exploring Past Notions of the Future [Audiobook]

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English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B08WJNKL2B | M4B@32 kbps | 15h 29m | 213 MB
Author: Stephen Webb | Narrator: Alex Boyles
It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast - not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology.
In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs.