{"id":7564,"date":"2020-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.chatecommerce.com\/https-ohchat-me-en-5-books-that-predicted-21st-century-technologies-that-we-use-today\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:46:14","slug":"5-books-that-predicted-21st-century-technologies-that-we-use-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.chatecommerce.com\/en\/5-books-that-predicted-21st-century-technologies-that-we-use-today\/","title":{"rendered":"5 books that predicted 21st century technologies that we use today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the smartphone still did not exist, the human being didn&#8217;t even dream of stepping on the Moon and the Internet was something of a distant future, visionary artists, geniuses and writers created <strong>books that predicted technologies that we use today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From spectacular outer space discoveries to the use of Artificial Intelligence that <a href=\"https:\/\/help.chatecommerce.com\/\">intelligent chatbots<\/a> or virtual reality video games use today, and even dangerous inventions such as the atomic bomb. <strong>These books foresaw the future,<\/strong> thanks to the clairvoyance and imagination of their authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Today we will reveal five writings which include, centuries or decades ago, technologies and innovations that are now part of our life in the 21st century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)<\/strong>: Not only considered one of the masterpieces of science fiction literature, this novel <strong>contains amazing predictions about the technological age. <\/strong>In\nthe futuristic society described in the book, direct prototypes of\nBluetooth headsets appear -like tiny shells- or flat-screen TVs to\ncommunicate over long distances -as nowadays social network interfaces\ndo-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Looking backward by Edward Bellamy (1888)<\/strong>:\nIt seems incredible that this book was written more than a century ago.\nThe main character of the novel is a traveler from the late 19th\ncentury who wakes up in a utopian society in the 21st century, where\npeople use pocket cards issued by banks that charge money from their\naccounts.<strong> Bellamy predicted credit cards! <\/strong>In\nthis science fiction writing he also mentions television, represented\nin a visionary way as a device to see and listen to concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ralph 124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback (1911)<\/strong>: A century ago this author predicted technologies that we use daily, such as Skype, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. More accurately, something named &#8220;telephot&#8221;\u009d that allowed human beings to see and hear from distant points. In this way, <strong>Gernsback predicted the future development of video calls<\/strong>. As a curious note, this author was also inventor of gadgets such as flying machines, instruments to capture radio sound and even a hair removal device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The age of intelligent machines by Ray Kurzweil (1999)<\/strong>:\nThis writing contains valuable predictions -some of which can still be\nfulfilled, since of them apply for hundreds or thousands of years into\nthe future-. For example, <strong>predicted that a computer would defeat the best chess player in the world, as IBM&#8217;s Deep Blue managed<\/strong>.\nThe disappearance of cables, the emergence of virtual glasses, the\nnanoengineering of autonomous machines, digital distance learning,\nAI-controlled prostheses, automatic translation, encryption of\ncommunication, the emergence of touch technology or virtual sex. You can\ncheck his predictions <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1984 by George Orwell (1949)<\/strong>:\nOne of the most famous dystopian novel. Its foresight varies from\ngeopolitical predictions to society prediction of a digitalized era\nwhere freedom and free thinking do not exist -a picture of the current\ntechnological dependence-. <strong>The cyber-vigilance embodied in Reality TV shows such as&nbsp; Big Brother,<\/strong>\nsomething that today translates into the proliferation of cameras, the\ncollection of information via internet cookies, the long fingerprint of\neach user or the use that companies make of our personal data. <strong>There is also a missile detection system or automatic speech transcription <\/strong>by a microphone -a forerunner of virtual assistants such as Cortana or Siri-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the smartphone still did not exist, the human being didn&#8217;t even dream of stepping on the Moon and the Internet was something of a distant future, visionary artists, geniuses and writers created books that predicted technologies that we use today. 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