Technology predictions

     Science Fiction is a genre that amuses everyone. Science Fiction Technologies actually inspire future inventions and influence them. Science is the backbone of everything. Every technology make the lives of millions of people better. Most of the technologies that exist today were once only seen movies. Today, the growth of technologies are rapidly increasing. It is a phenomenon that we can't stop because of man's increasing knowledge. Because of man's wild imagination many movies in the past have predicted the technologies that we have right now. 

     Some technologies today comes from the ideas of the futuristic sci-fi films in the past that was created only for entertainment. Some inventors got an idea from this futuristic movies and made it possible today. Here are some of them:

Video calls (Skype, Facebook messenger, Kakao talk, Facetime, etc)

     

     Video calls are widely used in modern society today because of its easy access especially if you have a WiFi in your house. Some applications in the Appstore offers video calls for free, you just have to turn on your mobile data and you can easily connect to your families and friends from across the globe. 

Futuristic video call in the 1960's "Jetsons"

     A cartoon named "The Jetsons" have predicted video calls in one of their episode. Isn't it amazing? This animated film way back in 1962 have predicted a technology that we're using today. During that time it's just an imagination and an innovation, but now we can easily accesss Video calls and have a good conversation with our love ones. 

Optical Camouflage

Harry Potter uses the Cloak of Invisibility

     Remember the Cloak of invisibility from the ever famous Harry Potter series? It is the third deathly hallow namely the elder wand, resurrection stone and this invisibility cloak. It has a special power that can turn anyone invisible. I remember when I was watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry used this cloak to spy and it excites me to try this invisible cloak and go to my crush house and spy on her, which is a bad idea because I might be tempted to commit sin.

     Optical Camouflage is a technology that can make you invisible. This technology works on the principle of the Augmented Reality. It makes the light rays bend around the material where they hit making the object invisible. This technology is no more fictional because it is tested and tried in some countries around the world.

Self Driving Cars

Google's self driving car

     Google's self driving car was adapted from many sci-fi films in the past. It is a bit reality for a while in 2010 because Google hasn't released it yet in the commercial markets. But, in August 2012, Google announced that they have completed a driving test using this driver less car without having any accident, thus, this technology is no longer a science fiction but now an advance technology.

     

     There are so many technologies that we are currently using today comes from a futuristic movie in the past. Throughout the years technology is spreading very fast and there's nothing we can do about it, we are living in an advance world that has many technologies that can make life easier but we should not over use technology because it can change the way we live like in the movie "Wall-E", People became soft-boned because of the excess use of their chair technology which is a bad thing because they can't walk properly anymore.

     Indeed, we are now living in an advance era where technologies from the past are now coming to reality. There are many more technologies in scifi movies today that is futuristic, and we don't know what predictions might occur. We just have to think beyond the box and imagine the unimaginable because a big accomplishment or success comes from a simple idea. Who knows? You might invent or create a technology in the future that can help the world to become a better place. We just have to think the impossible and everything will become possible.