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Visions of the Future
To think about technology is to think about the future. It is, unavoidably, to speculate and to predict, to imagine how our lives might be affected by new tools, new methods, and new innovations. Most arguments about technology are therefore really arguments about the future. They give voice to different sorts of expectations about progress and change, and to different sorts of intuitions about the purpose of human life. But where do these visions come from? Is there an outer, uber-intelligent, mechanical source to their inception?
And if so, can the scientific breakthroughs of the future give us a glimpse to the advanced creations/or formation of the spiritual world?
Where do the visions of the future world come from? The outer source of the human mind will be made known.
— Supernatural Spirit (@spiritworldblog) April 17, 2015
Imagining the future world, today.
Some of the best minds in the world came up with integrated circuit boards, which laid the groundwork for the Internet. Communication satellites, which is like taking the communication frontier into hyperspace. Some things had been around for a hundred years or more, but we did not discover a practical use for them until the 1950s such as titanium and fiber optics.
These are not small things. These are things that changed the lives of most people of the planet. An entire host of laboratories sprung up at such a rapid pace that it made your head spin, to name a few, Bell labs, Westinghouse Labs, Zenith Corp, Hughes Aviation, Texas Instruments and not to mention major contributions by the Department of Defense. Have you ever given much thought about how these life-changing inventions all came about in a twenty-year period.
Does it seem a bit odd that we knew about some things like optics, night-vision devices and titanium, but it was not until the 1950s that we discovered how to make them work?
- WATCH VIDEO –
@0:14 – Johannes Kepler first thought of Lunar Exploration in 1634.
@0:24 – This was first conceived/thought by Jules Verne in ’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’.
@0:36 – Cash cards were predicted in Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ in 1888.
@0:44 – The idea of mechanical servants (robots) can be traced back to Greek Mythology.
@1:22 – HG Wells made reference to a (future) device that had a flat square with vividly colored moving pictures.
@ 1:39 – CCTV Cameras were dreamt up by George Orwell back in 1949.
@1:47 - Geosynchronous Satellites were Predicted by Arthur C Clarke.
@2:19 – Mark Twain imagined a global communication network.
DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN?
PROPHETS OF SCIENCE FICTION
The series covers the life and work of leading science fiction authors of the last couple of centuries.
It depicts how they predicted and, accordingly, influenced the development of scientific advancements by inspiring many readers to assist in transforming those futuristic visions into everyday reality. The stories are told through film clips, reenactments, illustrations and interviews.
Where has our Technology come from?
And more importantly, Where do innovated ideas come from?
ACCESS: Visions of the Future
