5 Science Fiction Technologies That Actually EXIST

[@ShadowDrakken]

So, #5 and #4 don't actually exist yet, they're just in prototyping and planning phases. #3 was a completely different concept between the Sci-Fi and real things. And #1 you admitted yourself we don't have yet... So, way to fail on a video title.

[@ShadowDrakken]

there's only been prototypes and trials, there's no commercial ones

[@ShadowDrakken]

Nope, but I did find out I'm wrong on that one regardless. It appears www.eksobionics.com/ actually is the first company to commercialize them back in 2012. They don't sell very many yet though, and only to hospitals so far from what I can tell. Lockheed assisted with it, which might be why the US Army connection you have, but I haven't ever seen them in use in the Army.

[@greenzoid2]

It says they "exist".

[@ShadowDrakken]

greenzoid2 so what, 2 out of 5 is good enough for you huh?

[@greenzoid2]

***** It says "technologies that actually exist". All of these things already exist. You seem to be going by the standard of whether they are commercialized or not. The title is exactly what he presented in the video. Except for maybe #3

[@elias6253]

Teleportation by quantum entanglement, one of the most important potential leaps forward in human history

[@eimy1063]

Quantum entanglement? Explain

[@project9772]

Michael Chavers copy the word past it into google

[@davidreruk3924]

Elias Didn't scientists already successfully teleported a Atom?

[@elias6253]

David Rukundo Yeah, one single electron, but we're still nowhere near even teleporting a molecule.

[@larsmulthoff619]

Elias they did NOT teleport an atom, rather a photon.. no electron as I recall... and even that is not exactly true. they splitted a photon into its right and left spinning part, changed the first state and the effect arrived immediatly at the other side.. faster than light. The thing is.. Noone knows why.. it's ought to be impossible according to classical physics... quantum physics describe how things behave but not why.. no theory is truly proven... So one photon is a simple thing, I doubt that its possible, even in 10k years to teleport an atom or even a complex structure of mass. But we might use this effect to transfer bits across great distances. on earth it might not have a huge effect, but interstellar communication might as well work that way.. one day

[@ShadowEspada]

It is so hard to say what technology will come out next, I mean aside from what "They" are not telling us, there is just too many projects going at any given time, and then you factor in accidents and it becomes impossible, but if I had to guess, I would say that we are about due for cheap/free power for everyone, clean water for everyone, perhaps education as well? This is well within our technological and resource capacity. Oh that's right, we are being controlled by people and institutes that have agendas that do not include most people. Before the power hungry obtain the power to exterminate or control us with maximum efficiency we need to learn from our mistakes.

[@clampfan101]

Vertual reality. Ever heard of "Project Morpheus"? :D

[@Nizati]

I bet this has been said a million times but... I want my hoverboard dangit. But in all seriousness, I think 3D printing will soon be as common as the PC.

[@ronnoc5278]

Nizati Same, when I saw Back to the Future II, My child logic was just have magnet roads and magnet boards. It might work tho.

[@osgibson2789]

Nizati theve already been made! idiot!

[@georgwergeorgwert4480]

I think the same

[@kristiano2216]

Yeah they mean that not a lot of people have them compared to a report pc where most people have one

[@dr.dunawayscpfoundation6279]

AntiHashtag Gaming They May Have Made It But Nizati Does Not Have One. There Fore Nizati Wants One [Dangit]

[@ZainHallows]

3:29 FURRIES!

[@newsgoose3331]

***** what program did you make your intro in

[@BrodyRatcliffe]

What about AI companions like cortanna from halo?

[@xaytana]

I think you missed a very valuable piece of Star Trek tech, transparent aluminum. I forgot what it's called, but it basically does exist now.

[@kokopelli314]

Ok, here goes: Nano Scale Quantum Computers that bend time. Scientists receive super-luminal message from their future selves. Creation of 4D fractal energy storage. Cars that come to their owners when called (probably already here) Artificial and Augmented intelligence becoming a publicly traded commodity. Creative computation. Perfect memory. Recorded memories as entertainment (Brainstorm, 1983, Christopher Walken) Really good visual recognition, ("Ok Google, what was that?", "That was your neighbors cat, Fleabag. She appears to be in heat again")

[@DarkVelvet55]

Love this stuff such a neat channel :)

[@InnovumTechnology]

I don't think it's impossible to develop human-level AI with current technology. I just don't think anyone is really taking any good approaches. The cortex, which is the part of the brain responsible for intelligence, contains about 20 billion neurons. Each neuron has several thousand synapses, however only a few are actually active; the others just sit there waiting for the right conditions to strengthen enough to be useful. In addition, neurons only can fire about 200 times per second, and only around 2-3% of cortical columns are active at any given time. Let's say, on average, there are 100 active synapses per neuron. If each active synapse on each neuron in each active column requires one calculation, then 20B * 100 * 200 * 0.02 = 8 trillion calculations per second. To put this into perspective, AMD's R9 295x2 GPU is capable of about 11.5 trillion calculations per second, and the Tianhe-2 supercomputer (currently the most powerful) is capable of over 33 quadrillion. So we certainly have the processing power for artificial intelligence. We just need an algorithm that works. Many approaches that have been taken are absolute crap. Deep Learning, despite it's success, can take thousands, sometimes even millions of examples before it can learn something that a human can learn after hearing one or two sentences. In addition, as far as I know, it can't reason. There also have been approaches to making computers reason, but the sheer number of rules that the AI needs to learn before understanding "common sense" is massive; so massive that attempts to create this kind of system are estimated to be finished in time periods on the order of centuries. On the other hand, I'm working on something. There are some theoretical frameworks for how the neocortex works, and they are quite easy to run efficiently on a computer. I'm trying to see what it will take to get them to act intelligently. Unfortunately, this may take a while now that I have to sit through school all day.

[@tavonblack9927]

most people don t know that lol. you are one the few that got the problem with smart AI right. me personally think that it is set up to be this way so we humans can still be worker slaves for the money masters. think about it if robots can think like us. it will be no need for us humans to still be running things in this money system we live in. it s all planned. i heard powerful CEO S say we have to make sure we keep things as they are for years. like at least 3 years to put something out onto the market. they want to make sure that they make good money forever. if they put out something super that will change the way we humans live. it will mess up there power. humans can t beat robots in the brain. if they do the right thing an stop playing these silly games with our lives about some moore s law bulls*** we can really see the power of computers.

[@InnovumTechnology]

***** What is it then?

[@gabrielclark1425]

I'd say it's not the processing power that's the problem but how it's done. Binary systems just can't act run a sentient intelligence without *massive* work around's.

[@JohnBloomsTale]

Did anyone else hope he was going to say Light-sabers exist? XD DARN!!!!!! XP

[@stealthgaming9585]

Uh the whole cod advanced warfare in irl

[@BlairSigns]

A brain implant to give me Jedi mind control would be really handy.

[@renatopinho8883]

The Lawnmower Man - Being able to hear other people's thoughts. And the problem with it might be the same as in the movie... Too overwhelming and noisy, but I'm sure there'll be a way to filter that to just hearing what comes from one brain in specific. It's gonna raise a lot of privacy concerns, like Google Glass but 1000x. Also, brain-to-brain communication (aka telepathy in sci-fi) instead of having to talk to people on the phone out loud or typing text messages. There are waaaaay too many possibilities once reading a thought is possible, like controlling objects, recording dreams etc.

[@Scorn268]

Immortality or fast regeneration of cells like the ones we see in Jupiter's Ascending, where an old woman simply submerged herself into some liquid, her cells regenerated and fixed instantly, wrinkles gone, white hairs turned to black again, and eventually come out as a young woman!

[@boswcheydoesart1314]

which one do i THINK is next? Ranged laser weapons which one do i WANT next? You had me at lightsabers :)

[@ben_swain]

Josh Boucher No, not weapons. Bad.

[@boswcheydoesart1314]

Ben Swain I don't approve of war and destruction. And I certainly don't approve of ranged laser weapons. But lightsabers? They're just too awesome to apply . . . :D

[@jadan2000]

im gonna go with replicators! 3d printing is really making that possible

[@jamiegodman715]

Shouldn't the heading say "almost exist" as all 5 you listed are unproven or do not yet exist.

[@IAmShatteredLP]

+Jamie Godman hey man, actually exoskeletons are real and used in the medical and transport branch. even military/catastrophic rescue teams are going to be equipped. HAL is the oldest model in development if im not wrong. also gesture/motion control is highly used since several years. never seen the eyetoy for ps2, playstation move for the ps3, kinect for xbox, or the ones in development for virtual reality kids? its getting more and more shape. also "invisible", or holographic displays are real already. technology is absolutely mindblowing. you find a lot of legit knowledge and facts on iflscience.com :)

[@ThomasJDavis]

I think the next one to enter at least the consumer market is virtual reality. It's hard for me to say how prominent of a presence it will have in gaming. It could just end up as a peripheral device for PC's and consoles, or it could become the next permanent stake in how we experience interactive entertainment. It depends on what innovations and presentations of the medium catches consumers' interest and within a reasonable price. I also think that part of its permanency also depends on if it can sustain practical uses for other applications like simulations for training, education, etc. Then, as the tech develops, visual and auditory immersion will solidify. It's interesting to think that people have dreamed of experiencing VR for decades, but now that people have tackled the visual aspect of it, developers see that it's more tricky to tackle the other aspects of it (tactile feedback, traveling on foot, unrestricted bodily motion) than some might have thought. I think the solutions will come, but part of that trickiness is, again, the price. Personally, I want augmented reality more so than VR. It puts gamers back in the physical world. And if it's really entertaining and engaging, a cardio work out is a great by product!

[@USAlien234]

Im your 100,000 th Subscriber !!!

[@jogandsp]

how did the cellphone not make this list?

[@exploreinglife4240]

May you please talk about new space ideas nasa has been working on like a warp drive or cool tricky ideas about space travel?

[@MattydDotaGamerTeamMT]

I wish that soon circuits will generate a path for the code it's self such as a programable circuit that's way smaller in shape

[@josephh523]

im surprised you didnt bring up 3d printers. and for next tech i think ill see a light saber prototype during my life.

[@josh_notdum3510]

I hope those cristles will be the next so I can get my light saber

[@noahisaak2974]

i think that the next advancement would be the halo odst jump-troop suit. it is feasible to create an exosuit that has built-in magnetic or electro-magnetic force-fields which can stop a 30-06 caliber armor-piercing round.

[@twistiddlidz]

Everyone definitly wants to see an actual 3D Gear Maneuver from Shingeki no Kyojin.

[@blipzero]

a dual heads-up display that are centimeters apart which have cameras that show a reversed onto the inner part of the second par like that of a pilots h.u.d......if you like i can go into detail .

[@LazyMasterGamer]

Sonic screwdriver :p

[@SCtester]

YES!

[@kayrose6670]

:-)!!!!!!!!!!

[@PHENOXSPARTAN]

Plasma weaponry may also be on the way, thanks to the discovery of the ability to control plasma with electromagnetic fields, which also is giving us a real life hoverboard soon.

[@draco2525]

1. Orbital elevator. 2. Organic computer. 3. Space based weapons, most likely satellite based weapons

[@reboundingdicexgames3884]

I think mechs could eventually will carry out the future battles. The reason why is because exoskeletons are good an all but eventually someone will be looking for something better and safer for their troops so I bet they'll turn their heads towards mechs.

[@karansena]

there is no resarch at all on chi energy and conscious energy

[@AkanTerkenal]

karan pkatarki or is there?;) that makes for a good sci-fi story background though, a world where chi/prana/etc. is just beginning to revolutionize the world as we know it

[@spinners9462]

+karan pkatarki There is a good reason for that.

[@karansena]

can you please share the link to me .

[@karansena]

cool

[@karansena]

***** cool

[@samodonnell7537]

it wont be any time soon but... PORTAL GUNS! Yeah, maybe my great great great great grandchildren will get one for christmas...

[@AeroQC]

Full-Dive Virtual Reality like in Sword Art Online, where you're in the game, not just mimicking movements to interact with the game.

[@bnbcraft6666]

Space mining

[@suthinscientist9801]

Not yet.

[@yungclapper5199]

If I get a 3d printer, I'll probably build a house cleaning robot 30 years in the future. Also, I would make a bunch of hover crafts and sell them.

[@MichaelSHartman]

I thought you might have touched on 2001: A space odyssey's HAL and IBM's WATSON on your list given the Jeopardy challenge. Most computers can control other machines (space ships) and WATSON had a cognitive ability of sorts.

[@Shadow77999]

2:47, im not so sure about that..

[@neonnerd1159]

Light saber if I have something to do with it because you can make a plasma ark that is long and spin it very fast

[@craftman780]

What about a sonic screwdriver?

[@OnlyKnowsGod]

Next big sci-fiction thing to become real.. I think its likly going to be faster then light (FLT) travel as nasa has the blue print and the math hecks out ok. So there thar

[@richardhooper7232]

What about the lightener

[@Skycers]

FLYING CARS LIKE BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE HOVER BOARD, POWER LAZES, RECORDED DREAMS, ENGINEERING OF SMELL FOR VIDEOGAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITY, ENGINEERING OF FEELINGS.

[@NathanialJones]

Geez, you mention the tricorder, which has yet to truly exist, but ignore the PADD (Personal Access Display Device), which DOES exist... Essentially, that is what most tablets are. Granted the PADD was more along the lines of a terminal on a mainframe, but that is what cloud computing really is, so anyone storing their data in the cloud and accessing it on cloud-enabled apps on their tablets is using them pretty much as a PADD. From en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD: "Consisting of a large touchscreen display and minimalistic manual interface or control panel (generally only one or two buttons), the typical PADD is used for a variety of functions including logging manifests, compiling duty rosters or diagnostic reports, entering personal data, and/or accessing library computer systems..."

[@grizzlednerd4521]

I'm hoping for Fusion Reactors (e.g Germany's W7-X) to be efficient "soon". Relatively "free" energy would impact on so much.

[@ikequasar2209]

Biology in Science Fiction has always been a Personal favorite, and Genetic Engineering is absolutely no exception. In terms of what kind of Technology I want to see, I wouldn't be too surprised if Humans someday become like Jupiter Ascending, and colonize different planets by seeding them.

[@russellnerforminecraftyang9033]

How about the teleporting car in back to the future . Because I want to change my mistakes into something better

[@JosephDunnam]

I think teleportation or light speed travel is .

[@doctorwho0w314]

programable matter or a hand held phaser

[@silentlyobserve]

I'd have to say I'd love to see full-dive virtual reality become reality.

[@jamesveliz1259]

space ships, similar to star wars ships. ones that can move faster and could carry more people, like a republic cruiser.

[@butthole_4952]

is modumetal okay?

[@lachicoblanco]

I actually thought of an idea where, police officers get ironman suits to help out with crime better

[@Kitkat-986]

one day we will look back on the primitive technology of today and see how far we have come in so little time. a little over 50 years ago it was estimated that one day, computers capable of processing several kilobytes of information might only weigh 2 tons. i type this on a laptop weighing around 7 pounds that has more processing power than every computer on the planet put together at the time, with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a terabyte of memory capacity.

[@killer13324]

Actually, you can't talk about science fiction without energy shielding being brought up. Speaking of which WILL WE EVER GET ENERGY SHIELDING!?

[@killer13324]

Shadowlit001 Prove it. Prove that man-made energy shielding bouncing away bullets is real tech.

[@Callahan757575]

+killer13324 We do have this stiffening alloy. (don't know the real name) Where via electricity the molecules are aligned to make the metal stronger. You see some of this given a nod to in Star trek Enterprise.

[@cyberdaemon]

+Callahan757575 Thats not energy shielding. Energy shield would generate its own "wall", not merely make something already existing "stronger".

[@Callahan757575]

+cyberdaemon Got to learn to crawl before....

[@cyberdaemon]

LOL :D

[@Echo_Reyes]

mech warrior because lots of companies in japan have already prototyped mechwariors

[@matenovski9302]

I believe we currently have the technology to have affordable, usable, sustainable automated flying transport. With the development of drones, we have seen automated transport succeed in delivering pizza, construction work and even personal selfie drones. Using the current guidance systems for drones, integrated with GPS, we could have personal flying vehicles that can take off from our front yard and park and the local supermarket with a simple voice command. Now I'm not saying all the technology is affordable yet, but with a push for this kind of revolutionary transport and given the potential it has to profoundly change society, I believe it is possible we could see it in the next 30 years. All we have to do is want it.

[@carrotman]

Are Iron man and James Bond sci-fi?

[@fadedtiger3181]

Yes

[@theophidian4025]

The Diagnostic Bed, with over head read out, a la Star Trek original series. Get rid of those damn drip stands, with wheels that MUST have A.I.

[@vendigby]

the replicater is next with basic ingredients to make foods

[@zergmare7]

This whole thing about AI being self aware legitly scares me

[@arca5200]

Quantum teleportation is a real thing right now and it's not far from reality when humans would be able to teleport from place to place. Just my opinion.

[@N2HeroProductions]

Really? I know you can do it with Data, but I don't think Human teleportation is that close..

[@bluedimonddust]

syaondri Those things would properly be fixed while developing it.

[@B0SS8799]

Peep that ssj goku in the back at 0:14

[@Slothptimal]

Cryogenic Restoration. We're in the early phases of getting it to work, with human testing. Despite not being at the medically advanced level the freezer people desire.

[@joelhussain7913]

plus we can have smart houses,planes,cars,boats,and devices in medical, milatary,and everyday tasks

[@cr4yv3n]

Mechanical and neural augmentations as seen in Deus Ex Human Revolution ( they even used real scientists to help them with the design ) This stuff is coming and it is AWESOME !

[@khaz1155]

I made an heat vision gogles it traces heat signals from over 10 miles away

[@cyberdaemon]

It doesn't matter what high tech i want to see "become reality" in future. At least half of the technology, that people say has become reality, has only done that in a metaphorical sense. In reality, these technologies only resemble the movie versions in a very vague ways. Thats not what i call "fiction becoming reality". For me, something will count as "real life" version of something, if it has pretty much all of the functions and capabilities presented in movie/game. And until its not guaranteed to have pretty much all of the capabilities represented in a movie version also in real life version, it just doesn't count as "real life version".

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

This reminnds me of Jules Verne. Things in his books now exist today. It is almost as if he was predicting the future.

[@mainah4589]

You forgot the Rail Gun!

[@chaos_monster]

In fact the makers of minority report asked john underkoffler to help them design the user interface. It is reality just look for a TED talk

[@FreakBag22]

Exo. Skelton Is Plausible Because It Requires Advanced Computers and A Pilot. When I watch iron man I don't think it is impossible

[@TheBarleyBug]

I've already blueprinted an ion engine/motor

[@nimeni2704]

I'm thinking cybernetic enhancements for speed, strength, grip and so on due to the evolution of robotics and prosthetics :)

[@SnipeU696]

DARPA has an arm.

[@jonathanmears1]

If Star Trek: First Contact is anywhere near correct, warp drive is only a few years away. I'd love to see beyond light speed travel become reality.

[@russellnerforminecraftyang9033]

How about the teleporting car in back to the future

[@gregaurnaut827]

ray guns and blaster weapons sort of like the ones in Star Wars could be very possible

[@bhaskaranc2415]

"Interstellar" movie...The theory of 4 dimension will make complicated things much more easier for the mankind.

[@DLBBALL]

Problem of number 1:Play a memory quiz with a robot and they will mostly win because they have better recall times but we still are more smarter because WE made the robots themselves

[@carlov.4408]

you know that feeling when you had this magnicifent great idea when you were very young and you found out someone older than you beat you to making it? this video just made it feel 50x worse.

[@fadedtiger3181]

I would like to see viable space travel be next.

[@shawanchualan5795]

the nerou transmeter from big hero 6

[@ffofy7891]

Talk about the reality of Star Trek technologies, like warp drive or transporters.

[@bluedimonddust]

Tesla Reactor(not the next thing, but i hope we get it farely soon). 1 of those things would give enough electricity to the entire planet for about 100.000 years. (With our current electricity use).

[@Duder123]

I think it's the Star Wars blaster

[@unknownaccount1267]

My favorite part about this video is seeing daft punk

[@890ronnie]

did anyone else instantly think fallout when he said robobrain

[@olliepop0124]

I think that the replicator should be made into reality

[@odda1991]

have you heard of watson the super computer?!! we ar not decades away from self ware machines,, i think we are pretty closer than that :)

[@grizzlednerd4521]

+Ahmed Toson The BBC reported that a computer passed the Turing Test recently (9 June 2014). The test and results were a little controversial, but I agree that with advances in self-learning systems (e.g. DeepMind) that we're much closer than most would think. I highly recommend the 2014 Ted Talk by Jeremy Howard.

[@ashish99999]

Immortality. Way data storage is becoming cheaper and as our understanding of human brain is increasing, may be with in 2 decades we could download ourselves on a pen drive and reload ourselves in a new body.

[@CariagaXIII]

Still waiting for SAO

[@ariaokamailuk1280]

warp drives, they are theoretically possible and there is a team of scientist trying to make one. If one is created, we could get to alpha centauri in two weeks, instead of FOUR YEARS traveling at the speed of light, more than 200 times faster.

[@TheSledgehammer205]

How about non-invasive surgery (a-la Star Trek) - Check out Insightec - /watch?v=IfJemqkby_0... now the size of a room, but the early computers were the size of a house, and a few years later would fit on a desk, in a briefcase, and now in a pocket or on a wrist. Will this then fit in a belt-pouch as Dr McCoy and the other ST medics carry in the 24th century?

[@javierlozanoguiler722]

I think the next is the holograms like in Star Wars because already exist the takee the cell phone build by Chinese that makes holograms which could also allow holochat like video chat

[@larsmulthoff619]

in most cases the tricorder was used to diagnose death.. and skynet = google -.-

[@grumpyhale821]

You forgot self driving cars amd mobile phones, both were SiFi.

[@InFAMOUSPS4_19]

from star trek the warp cores, ok maybe not exactly the most realistic but combining matter and anti matter according to E=MC^2 will cancel each other out leaving nothing but pure energy.