La sombra de la ciencia ficción: tecnología del mañana, destellos del presente

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Sci-Fi’s Sneak Peek: Tomorrow’s Tech, Today’s Weirdness Remember those cheesy sci-fi flicks from the 80s? The flying cars, the robot butlers, the video calls that looked like something out of a potato sack? Well, get this: some of that stuff is creeping closer to reality than you might think. While we’re not exactly cruising around in DeLoreans, the building blocks of tomorrow’s tech are being laid right now, fueled by the very same imaginations that spun tales of laser guns and space operas. Take artificial intelligence (AI), for example. Forget the killer robots of Terminator (for now!). AI is already weaving itself into the fabric of our daily lives, from the algorithms that curate our Netflix recommendations to the voice assistants whispering helpful (or sometimes hilariously unhelpful) suggestions from our smartphones. Self-driving cars, once a futuristic fantasy, are slowly but surely hitting the roads, promising to revolutionize transportation. We’re not quite...

Remember those grainy sci-fi flicks from decades past? The ones with clunky robots, silver jumpsuits, and bewilderingly large communication devices? It’s easy to chuckle now, to see them as quaint relics of a less technologically advanced era. But here’s the kicker: many of those seemingly outlandish ideas are no longer confined to the silver screen. They’re subtly, and sometimes not-so-subtly, weaving themselves into the fabric of our daily lives. We’re living in a future that, in many ways, looks uncannily like the futures dreamed up by authors and filmmakers long before we had the internet in our pockets. The “Just Around the Corner” Tech of Yesteryear Let’s start with the basics. The smartphone? That sleek rectangle that holds more computing power than NASA used to send humans to the moon? It’s a direct descendant of the communicators seen in shows like Star Trek. Captain Kirk’s flip-phone-like device was a dream of instant, personal communication, and now...