Prediction of the future





I have read a lot of Si fi books in my life and most of them well near enough all of them are about the writer’s vision of the future some of them are way off the mark and some of them are very close

If you Have ever read H.G.Wells a brave new world you can see some of the things in that are true today

Sometimes what the books predict for the future is so freighting that they change the path of the future like nineteen eighty four by George Orwell

I think everyone was glade to see that his prediction only came true in the USSR

Gean Rodenberry predicted the hand held communicator or mobile phone as we know it

I read I book by R Holbern written in 1962 in which he predicted there would be berserkers he call them

People that for no reason what so ever would go mad in a public place and start killing people at random and if you watched the news yesterday you will see he was right

He also predicted that we would be come addicted to electronic entertainment and lose the will to leave our armchairs (that’s not happen yet has it)

What books or films have you read that have predicted things that have come true

What ones have you read that you think may come true or you would like to see come true

2001 a space oddity was way off the mark
a moon base no
Hi Tec environment no
the USSR still our Enemy no
Space ship capable of going to Jupiter you wish


He should have named it 2101 he may have been closer

Sorry I meant the shape of things to come BY H.G.Wells

What would be interesting is to see what people predict for the future themselves. To imagine that you yourself were alive in one hundred years time - what will have changed and why.

Can we do this Cockney?

I read On The Beach by Neville Shute when I was about 13 about after a nuclear war it scared the living daylights out of me but it has a definite possibilty of happening in my lifetime.

Some weird and wonderful plants I see these days bring Day of the Triffids to mind.

What would be interesting is to see what people predict for the future themselves. To imagine that you yourself were alive in one hundred years time - what will have changed and why.

Can we do this Cockney?

Er I think you would want the time travel thread for that Nox



I have put this thread in the wrong place
I think it should be in the Books bit can someone move it for me

I read On The Beach by Neville Shute when I was about 13 about after a nuclear war it scared the living daylights out of me but it has a definite possibilty of happening in my lifetime.

Some weird and wonderful plants I see these days bring Day of the Triffids to mind.

Day of the Triffids was such a good book so scary



I think books like I Robot by Isaac Asimov changed the way we regarded robots

He saw robots as saving mankind from being wage slaves and being set free from the mundane

In his books earth had banned robots and only the colonies had them

He predicted that mankind would resent the robots for taking there jobs

And we have seen that happen already with most cars and household goods being built by robots these days and fully Automated phone systems
how maney people have been repalced by a computor



books like the Colossus and the Terminator have changed mankinds view towards artificial intelligence if these books and books like them had not being written would we have gone ahead and built computers that could think for themselves I think we would

Moved as requested, my dear old cockers :wink_kiss

I was talking to a group of twenty something’s and motioned G.O's 1984
not one of them had heard of it let alone read it
I was shocked dot they teach this in school anymore it’s very poignant Pease of literature and should be read

1984 is a brilliant book. I have only read it once in my early teens, but it affected me so much and has stayed with me all this time.

I see that they have made a film of the Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

If you have read the books as I have I think you may be disappointed by the film

The yanks have taken over

I don’t know where to start really

Zaphod has only one head

Marvin is tiny

Ford is completely out of caricature and unrecognisable

From what I can see it has the same title but it is a completely different story

Douglas Addams must be turning in his grave
it's not a wonder that H Grant turned it down

We did 1984 in school, for our GCSE's I think. Mind you that was 12 years ago. I thought it was a fantastic book too, and tried to persuade Mr G to read it last year. When realised he had only read 2 pages in 4 months though I had to give up.

We also did To Kill a Mockingbird which is another great book.

I was looking forward to seeing Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy but am notso sure now. Mind you its been ages since I read the book so I might not mind the changes so much.

I think I will enjoy it whatever



It just annoys me that these days the Americans feel that any story will be better if all the characters where American

Goodness knows what they will do if they try making sequels from the rest of the books in the series