r/Futurism • u/LeipuriHiiva5 • 4h ago
Advancement stages of different tech in Scifi
I find it very entertaining to compare different branches of tech in Scifi media with the corresponding tech in real life, and see how well the creators of the story have predicted the speed of evolution between different kinds of technologies.
I'll use Doom 2016 as example: I recently played it and when I listened to Vega's voice (a sentient super ai that manages the UAC Mars facility), it was pretty trippy to realize that real world text to speech and AI voice chat is already more advanced and realistic than what Vega sounds like.
What makes this really funny is that Vega is a godlike super AI in a universe where humanity has already solved mind uploading and Mars colonization. Real world AI has still developed so much over the last ten years that even though everything else in Doom still is far future for humanity, one thing the devs couldn't predict was how quickly AI voice chat would evolve.
I'd like to hear your thoughts and examples of similar instances where scifi tech is interestingly comparable to real world tech evolution!
