How the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else
“Stand On Zanzibar” by John Brunner. Winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year. It’s set in the early 21st century and predicted that you’d have middle- and upper-class folks needing roommates to make the rent, a permanent homeless population in major cities, wide spread school shootings, AI’s running corporations, legal marijuana, and so many other things…
“Stand On Zanzibar” by John Brunner. Winner of the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year. It’s set in the early 21st century and predicted that you’d have middle- and upper-class folks needing roommates to make the rent, a permanent homeless population in major cities, wide spread school shootings, AI’s running corporations, legal marijuana, and so many other things…
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