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The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".
Technology in science fiction is a crucial aspect of the genre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As science fiction emerged during the era of Industrial Revolution , the increased presence of machines in everyday life and their role in shaping of the society was a major influence on the genre.
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers.. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon.
This page is a listing of articles about fictional technologies and technological devices featured in works of fiction. See also: Category:Hypothetical technology and Category:Science fiction Subcategories
From the science fiction series Perry Rhodan (1961) Merlin from the H. Beam Piper novel The Cosmic Computer (originally Junkyard Planet ) (1963) Simulacron-3 , the third generation of a virtual reality system originally depicted in the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 (a.k.a. "Counterfeit World") by Daniel F. Galouye (1964) and later in film ...
The popular NBC science fiction show, Revolution, is based on a worldwide blackout due to the manipulation of nanotechnology. In 2010 Generator Rex was shown on Cartoon Network. It was based on a laboratory experiment going wrong and infecting the world with bad "Nanites" which turned people into monsters known as E.V.Os.
Colossus (1966) is a series of science fiction novels and film about a defense super-computer called Colossus that was "built better than we thought" when it begins to exceed its original design. [24] As time passes Colossus assumes control of the world as a logical result of fulfilling its creator's goal of preventing war.
Stephenson partnered with Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination [4] which now administers the project. In September 2014, the project's first book, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer was published by William Morrow . [ 5 ]