Strugatsky - brilliant forecasters. Here are 10 ideas that have already come true
A Life Trends / / December 19, 2019
Boris Strugatsky in one of his interviewsOFF-LINE interview with Boris Strugatsky on the Internet He said: "Science fiction - lousy predictors, diviners. Yes this from them is not required. They do not sow, they are, at best, loosen the soil for planting. " But if we discard false modesty, still science fiction brothers in their books we have listed a lot of things and phenomena, which appeared much later.
1. Skype
In the book "Beetle in the Anthill," written in 1979, mentions a videophone. It is used to transmit not only sound but also images. What is not Skype?
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Beetle in the Anthill"In the midst of this debate, at 19:33, zakurlykal videophone. Andrew, who was sitting closest to the unit, pointed to the key. The screen lit up, but it was not the image on it.
Detailed device is not described, but it is present screen and keys. It can be put on the table or keep on your lap, but he at the same time massive enough to recoil someone on head - at least, in the awkward conversation time with Maya Glumova Maxim Kammerer I would not be surprised of such term. Apparently, the Strugatsky were still mobile devices are quite cumbersome.
2. Wikipedia
More Strugatsky come up with something like the current "Wikipedia" - Large planetary whistleblowers. It contains a huge variety of information, and is not only an encyclopedia, but also the telephone directory and address book.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Beetle in the Anthill"I decided to start with Schekna. Schekn, of course, is not an earthling or even humanoid, so it took all of my experience and my whole, I would say without boasting, skill in handling the information channels to get the information that I got. I note parenthetically that the vast majority of my odnoplanetnikov has no idea about the real possibilities of eight (or now the ninth?) Wonder of the World - Big planetary whistleblowers. Fully admit, however, that I, with all his experience and all his skill, does not have the right to claim the perfect ability to use his vast memory.
Planetary informants can use anyone, but in it there is also closed sections "only for experts" with different levels of tolerance. In the book "Beetle in the Anthill" is mentioned, that the personal data of people placed in only with their consent base.
3. Online shopping
"Shipping Line", mentioned in various works of the Strugatsky - is the future of the store to make and receive orders in which you can without leaving the house. Very reminiscent of modern online shopping. Apparently, mainly in the "Shipping Line" bought food. Just as we buy pizza via mobile applications.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Noon, the XXII century"- Organize everything you can, - said Sheila. - Just what is the point? Who would eat at home?
- I eat at home.
- Well, Genia - Sheila said - well, like, move to the city? There's a line of Shipping, and you can dine at home as much as necessary.
- I do not want in the city - Eugene said stubbornly. - I want the lap.
4. Neural networks
Self-learning artificial intelligence is already a very real thing. Let modern neural network yet not self-aware, they dream of most fiction writers, but they know how to learn.
In Strugatsky in the story "The spontaneous reflex" describes a self-learning robot Urm, out-of-control. He is driven by boredom and curiosity, he begins to explore the world and in the process causes significant material damage to the lab, which has been created.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Spontaneous reflex"Urma behavior is determined by its "brain" extraordinarily complex and delicate apparatus of the germanium-platinum foam and ferrite. If an ordinary digital computer, tens of thousands of flip-flops - elementary bodies, receiving, storing and gave signals that in the "brain" Urma involved for nearly eighteen million logic cells. They are programmed to respond to a variety of positions on the various options for a change of circumstances, provides for implementation of a large number of different operations.
5. Cars with autopilot
The car, which does not need a driver - quite a popular idea in science fiction. For example, they are present in the works of Ray Bradbury, and before him, David Keller. In Strugatsky unmanned cars mentioned in the "Prey things century."
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Final Circle of Paradise"I watched as he approached his long car, collapsed on the seat, poked in the remote car drivers sat back and it seems that now asleep. Vehicle gently rolled in size and speed dialing, disappeared in the shade and the green side of the street.
In modern vehicles instead of remote touch screens. But now sleep during the ride while it is not worth it: drivers are forbidden to take your hands off the steering wheel.
6. Bluetooth-Headset
In "Prey century things" referred to a miniature wireless headset, which is attached to the ear and receives radio signals. Strugatsky named her earring-receiver.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Final Circle of Paradise"He approached me slowly, wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, a swarthy fat man in white, in a round white cap askew. Hat was green with a transparent visor and with a green ribbon on which was written: "Welcome." On the lobe of the right ear of his glittering earring receiver.
Interestingly, the Bradbury described a similar contraption - radioperedatchiki- "shells" - before that, in the novel "Fahrenheit 451" in 1953.
7. body modification
People dissatisfied with their bodies and want to change it by artificial means, always existed. With the latest developments in surgery for them opened endless possibilities - ranging from a simple lip augmentation and breast and finishing the introduction of chip and implants, to radically change the appearance.
Strugatsky foresaw something like that. They indulged in the body modification Artico, people praised the "artificial life": breathe smoke, eat artificial food and transform itself so as to be as different from ordinary mortals.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Final Circle of Paradise"Something hissed in my ear. I turned my head and stepped back involuntarily. Next to me, staring blankly at the pedestal, stood a long, thin man, from head to neck tightened in some gray scales, with a cubic bulky helmet on his head. The human face covered glass plate with holes. From holes in tact breath coming wisps of smoke. Haggard face of the glass plate was covered with sweat and often-often okalo cheeks. At first I took him for a stranger, then thought it was by spa which spelled out specific procedures, and only then realized that it Artik.
8. food cloning
Space travelers in the works of Strugatsky had to eat is not the most delicious synthetic food. Some admirers of the brothers see it as the prototype of modern GMOs. This, of course, not the case: nothing GMO products they do not differ the taste and quality of the rest.
Much more in common with synthetic food Strugatsky has cultivated meat. In 2013, Mark Post, a pharmacologist from the University of Maastricht, demonstrated the first hamburger artificial meat grown in a test tube. The company Mosa Meat, which is a co-founder of Post intends by 2021 to bring cultivated meat on the market.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Far Rainbow"He tried to think of the giant herds of beef animals, which are now distilled into the continent; how much will have to work on the restoration of Greenfield, where dissipate wave; and how frustrating after two years of abundance returns to sintepische to artificial steak, a pear flavor toothpaste to hlorellovym "soups rural" to the lamb cutlets kvazibioticheskim and other wonders of the synthesis, whether they are wrong ...
9. 4D-cinema
Modern 4D - it's the same three-dimensional cinema, but with some additional effects: the vibration of chairs, wind, spray, smoke, smells. All this should contribute to a deeper plunge the viewer into the film's atmosphere. Something similar discussing the characters in the story Strugatsky "What are you" from the series "World of Noon."
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Noon, the XXII century"- Well, more like - Slavin said. - The massive spectacle and a massive osyazalischa. And mass obonyalischa.
Gorbovsky chuckled softly.
- That's it, - he said. - Obonyalischa. And it will be, Yevgeny Markovich! Surely ever will!
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "Noon, the XXII century"Malyshev said thoughtfully:
- It would be nice to develop methods for film transfer tactile sensations. Imagine, Boris, on the screen someone kissing someone, and you feel a kick in the face ...
- I imagine - Panin said. - I have so once was. Without cinema.
10. Virtual worlds
Took to the story "The Final Circle of Paradise" - a device that by means of electromagnetic radiation plunges man into the virtual world of infinite happiness and contentment. It is included in the radio instead of the local oscillator. Before activating the slug need to go to the bathroom and take a pill.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Final Circle of Paradise"Illusory being... No, it's not a drug, where there are drugs... It is exactly what it should be. Here. Now. Each time his own. Poppy seeds and hemp, sweet realm of vague shadows and the rest - for the poor, for of frozen, for hammered... And here nobody needs peace, do not oppress here and no one dies of hunger, it is simply boring. Hearty, warm, is drunk and boring. The world is not that bad, the world is boring. [...] slug is coming on the world, and this world is not averse to submit to the slug.
Create pictures in the brain by means of radio waves, modern VR-device yet do not know how. But just visit virtual worlds and survive in them an incredible adventure you can now.
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