The future of computing as predicted by nine science-fiction machines
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3154D)
From Star Trek to The Matrix via The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction has long predicted computing innovation before the designers have
Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future of technology, from Star Trek's Padd, essentially an iPad, to the Jetsons' robot vacuum, basically a Roomba.
Now that the voice assistant is here, that's another checklist off the sci-fi predictor, but while our Alexas, Siris, Cortanas and Google Assistants are pretty basic right now, if sci-fi continues its great prelude to the future, what will the computers of the future really be like?
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