Ten Science And Technology Fictions That Have Become 21st Century Reality

In the recent times we’ve seen the thin line between technology fictions and reality closing up gradually, one can hardly point at anything and say for sure that such a thing is impossible. The line” Impossibility is the word found in the dictionary of fools” has been proven right in this 21st century. Here is a rundown of 10 innovations once considered as movie fictions but now a reality

1.Digital world: The ability of man to exist in another world totally different from ours, a virtually created world while wearing a headset was once a thing viewed in the cinemas but today virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality have made us closer to the unimaginable. Recently a plot of digital land in virtual real estate was sold at a whooping sum of $4.3 million on metaverse. Read more about metaverse.

2. Dream Reconstruction: It was a total grip of novelty when Japanese scientists successfully created an MRI machine that can record your dreams and reconstruct them for you to watch when you awake so the issue of dreaming and forgetting has in this century received a solution; a fiction turned to reality.

3.DNA Immortality: The fear of some people existing and eventually dying off with their super intelligent and rare DNA has been a concern of scientist for ages, but reality has dawned and it is no longer a movie fiction that scientist can now store DNA of certain people in a disk drive, they call it the immortalized drive. The DNA of Stephen Hawking is said to be stored on this immortal drive onboard ISS.

4. 3D printers: The Idea of printing 3D usable materials was a Star Trek movie fiction where it was used to print edible foods, but today 3D printers are here with us and we can go from printing work materials to building materials and 3D food printer is still passing through the experimental phase and will be launched sooner. Read more about 3D printing 

5. Driverless cars and trains: it’s quite a story to enjoy that with Internet of things (IoT) on the go coupled with AI, cars and trains are now self driven, taxis with no annoying drivers can pick you and drop you at your required destination avoiding traffics, playing your very best songs with an inbuilt AI which can start up discussions with you. we are real life actors in a real life movie titled the 21st century wonder.

6. Reacting houses: some call it connected houses. The present day which has gone beyond internet to the internet of things have introduced houses that react based on vocal orders and finger snaps. With a vocal order, the gas cooker can be turned on, your television and home theatres can be powered on and off using a voice note. All and sundry in the house can be wired to the internet in such a manner that they answer whenever they are called. Even without the aid of a human, they can be programmed to turn on and off at a particular time, the coffee maker knows when to make the coffee☕, the Air condition knows when to go on and also at what temperature to set itself; it’s a marvel to behold not to talk of living in such time. Read more on internet of things.

7. Robotic assistants: having robots as assistants is no longer a rare occurrence as it is going global, Robotic engineering has marveled the world in the recent past and Robots that can successfully assist human beings is now in use. A robot can now lead a blind woman, a robot can serve you drinks in a bar; make sure you pay her, a robot can bounce you out of a party; don’t try fighting him, a robot can search you at the airport; just make sure you are not carrying any contrabands.

8.Smart devices: Movies like Matrix saw the use of smart watches, glasses, intelligent jewelries; these are no longer fictions, smart glasses that can record videos, sounds and pictures have been designed, Smart watches that can make phone calls, also intelligent jewelries can now be purchased in electronic stores.

9. Video calls: In as much as it looks as if video calls have become a daily norm but it's sure making this list. Before now audio calls were the best science and technology could afford, video call was then a step too far into non reality but this is no longer same story now. One can comfortably have a facetime call with anyone anywhere in the globe. This is the future we dreamt of.

10. Space travel: There are quite so many novel technologies making wave in this century and believe me choosing ten out of the millions of them is quite a task. Space travel has advanced in this time, this time around people travel to space as often as you visit the mall, it's no longer a big deal, you can choose to have your wedding and honeymoon in space, you can even decide to go for a vacation, we've seen movies shot in space, this is quite a thrilling time to live in I bet you.

The list is inexhaustible, if there are some other technologies you think that were unjustly omitted please feel free to mention them in the comment box below.