And many other things. I am pretty sure we are in the infancy of voice commands but what about from a single device? Would it be easy for the average person to set up with like youtube videos and such?
And many other things. I am pretty sure we are in the infancy of voice commands but what about from a single device? Would it be easy for the average person to set up with like youtube videos and such?
Totally possible. Thequestion is whether it’s worth it. Science fiction is cool because of the fiction, not because of the science.
When it becomes science reality it instantly loses it’s luster. Because science fiction doesn’t tell you about the things that suck about the tech.
Has there ever been a science “fiction” book that actually dived in to the mechanics just to explain what’s going on and years later added on to those mechanics and it became fact? Generally curious.
Depends on what exactly you mean.
Star Trek famously took scientific concepts that were in early development at that time and finctionalized them. Some of them then were developed in reality. They didn’t “invent” them, but they did popularize them.
For example, the first early prototype work on touch screen was published in 1965, and Star Trek introduced them in 1966. At that time the concept of touch screens was not widely known in the general public. Touch screens did become a wide-spread product much later.
Research on speech recognition started in 1960, computer-based speech synthesis in 1950 and Chatbots in 1964. Neither of them were any good in 1966 when Star Trek used the concepts to create a “computer” that one can talk to. They neither invented the components of that, nor did they invent the combination of all that. But when they used that in fiction, reality wasn’t nearly ready to actually deliver on these promises.
In general, good science fiction usually uses stuff that is right now in research. Bad science fiction makes shit up.