The Impact of Sci Fi on Technology
summary
Talk lists concrete links between sci‑fi and real products: claims QuickTime inspiration came from Star Trek: The Next Generation, points to James Gosling’s Star 7 prototype as an early tablet ancestor of the iPad, and traces Apple Newton and Palm lineage. Demonstrations include tricorder → 3D‑printed food and houses, voice assistants and the limits of speech recognition, Sophia as a near‑human robot, deepfakes, and real self‑driving accidents. Useful if you want specific origin stories and working examples rather than theory.
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chapters (49)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52Childhood
- 1:38Isaac Asimov
- 4:24Quiz
- 4:55Star Wars
- 6:07Rambling
- 7:29Commander Data
- 7:46Communicator
- 9:06Tablet
- 9:20Star VII
- 9:46Palm Pilot
- 10:15Enterprise
- 10:40No Buttons
- 11:56TwoWay Communicator
- 12:32Watch
- 12:44Replicator
- 13:25Printing Food
- 13:55Printing Houses
- 14:19Printing on Mars
- 14:53Teleportation
- 15:44Blind Person
- 16:20Spectrum
- 16:30Artificial Intelligence
- 17:43Byzantine of Man
- 18:09Sofia
- 19:10Synthetic
- 22:08Tony Stark
- 22:22Hologram
- 22:53Elijah Wood
- 24:13Treadmill
- 24:49Minority Report
- 25:08The Future We Want
- 25:35SelfDriving Car
- 26:18The Future
- 28:13Genetic Engineering
- 29:02Robotics
- 30:05Synthetics
- 30:27Memory
- 31:50God
- 32:05Cyberpunk
- 34:11The Floor
- 37:04Matrix
- 38:25The Orbital
- 40:29Pokemon Go
- 44:27Simplicity
- 48:37Cobras
- 49:39Gaming the System
- 53:02Your Point of View
- 55:07This is a Probable Future
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