HACKER Q&A
📣 tmaly

Best sci-fi for near term future?


I have always thought some of William Gibson's more recent stuff could become a reality in the near term future.

What other sci-fi authors do you think also do well with near term future predictions?


  👤 giaour Accepted Answer ✓
The society depicted in Stand on Zanzibar doesn't seem that far off from today's world.

👤 haxzie
Probably with all the LLMs out there and AI gadgets popping out, it wouldn't be too far to have a new kind of Human Computer Interaction Interface, maybe not voice, but maybe even thoughts or some sort of new ways of interactions, subtle but way more context aware and versatile with the amount of input required to be very very less.

👤 B5C8ECB24DB47D1
Ravage by René Barjavel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes

👤 BMc2020
Charles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.

👤 j0hnyl
Philip K Dick when he writes about paying the door to open is getting pretty close.