Rule of thumb for predicting: much of what you can imagine won't happen. Much of what matters will be things you can't imagine. 1/
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That's cool, but in a poll about flying cars, space colonies, giant robots, who votes for tiny orchestras you can put in your pocket? 5/
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Because that's the future we actually got. That's what western culture, to a substantial extent, is now. Sounds (and pictures). 6/
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The end, no moral. 7/7
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I've seen people praising Star Trek for predicting cellphones, but that's actually backwards.
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Star Trek had communicators and teleporters and voice-controlled computers because that's what people wanted.
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Cellphones require advanced photolithography and lithium batteries and GaAs RF amplifiers. But people wanted them so they were made.
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On the other hand, teleporters just aren't happening, even if people want them.
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