Comment by moffkalast
2 years ago
Sure, but it's sort of how actual usable and economical flying cars would be a paradigm change for transport. The idea exists, but it's made up fairy magic with capabilities and limitations based on plot requirements. Once it's actually made real it hardly ever ends up being used the way it was imagined.
Like for example in 2001, the video call tech. They figured it would be used like a payphone with a cathode ray tube lol. Just as in reality nobody in the right mind would hand over complete control of a trillion dollar spaceship to a probabilistic LLM. The end applications will be completely different and cannot be imagined by those limited by the perspective of their time.
I don't recall a single cathode ray tube in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is notable for having the first depiction of a tablet computer. They went to considerable effort to show flat-screen displays instead of CRTs.