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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2024, 09:34:00 AM

Title: Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 31, 2024, 09:34:00 AM

Sci-fi is also filled with a lot of fairly crap predictions, where are our jet packs, but this one is pretty accurate.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/sci-fi-author-j-g-ballard-predicts-the-rise-of-social-media.html

Title: Re: Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Post by: Steve H on May 31, 2024, 01:21:11 PM

Well - sort-of. It has also been argued that Douglas Adams "invented" the internet with 'The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', both the book and the fictional electronic thiingy within it, a sort of galactic Tripadvisor, and the same claim has even been made for Teilhard De Chardin's "Noosphere", though that is a bit of a stretch.