Sci-Fi That Got It Right (And Wrong)
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Nishant Kumar
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Old science fiction, read against what actually happened. We keep score. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
The retro-future detail that dates a book fastest
Not the big misses. The small ones — the interstellar ship with a card index, the galactic empire where nobody has a phone.
Nishant Kumar1 reply#chaptra-house1984 vs Brave New World: which one are we living in?
The oldest argument in the genre and it refuses to die, largely because the answer keeps shifting depending on the decade. Make the case. Bonus for anyone arguing it's neither.
Nishant Kumar1 reply#chaptra-houseThe prediction that aged terrifyingly well
The specific passage that reads like it was written last year. Post the quote and the publication date.
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Science fiction has a near-perfect record of predicting the technology and completely missing what people would do with it
The devices turn up more or less on schedule. Video calls, pocket computers, networked everything. What almost nobody called was the texture: that the miracle communication network would mostly be used for advertising and argument, that the pocket computer would make people lonelier, that the future would be strange in a boring way rather than a dramatic one. Who got the human half right?
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