Author Topic: Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)  (Read 281 times)

Nearly Sane

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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

Steve H

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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.
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."