Ravenlay Jules Verne beat Mr Swift too it though.....oddly enough in the same book they referenced for submarines. Except it wasn't a stun gun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_ball
Asimov often mentioned household computer terminals where a person could ask any question, and an answer would be generated from a centralized database containing nearly all human knowledge. This was many decades before the internet.
Chris Clifford I was thinking something along the lines of a Wikipedia-Google hybrid. A comprehensive knowledge source mixed with statement parsing and intuitive search result handling.
They forgot something else from Star Trek, something so common we hardly take notice of it as being strange and new anymore. Doors that sense the approach of someone and open by themselves.
Dan Gould Well, I suspect the whoosh sound is an audio-effect to get the crew's attention, like the buzzing the door makes at Radio Shack, or the "ding" when an elevator arrives on your floor. Starships are busy places, & people can get caught up in something else while waiting for the lift to arrive. The whoosh could be to alert people the lift doors are opening. I remember one episode where Picard wasn't watching, and the doors opened but there was no turbo lift there ! He nearly walked into the lift shaft, but managed to jump at the last moment and grabbed the lift cables. Then, the doors closed behind him and he was left hanging there. . . D : Or . . . maybe that was The Bob Newhart show, I don't remember for sure.
Anacronian Ah, the good old "photoelectric effect". But, didn't such doors come into service in the 1970's, about the same time Star Trek became popular? Star Trek has literally been on TV for all of my life, so I don't remember what things were like before it first aired.
Actually, they first show up in _Beyond This Horizon_ (another of Heinlein's works) in 1942. The idea is a bit older though, with a variation showing up in the 1830s, developed by Scottish physician Neil Arnott.
@@GoranXII though heinlein's description was so well detailed that all patents were refused on waterbeds. This led to their great popularity, since anyone with the means to produce them could do so.
And the 3D printer which e described i Assignment in Eternity part 1 or 2 can't remember which. He described it as a machine in which you put in sausage and got out dog. Like Clarke and Asimov he described a lot of things which later came true.
Not only did the novel have flatscreens, but they covered all four walls, giving the impression of a 3-dimensional space in which the soap operas played out.
Probably because Clarke actually proposed it in a letter and then expanded on it in a scientific paper. He didn't introduce it to the world as part of a sci-fi story.
@@corneliuscorcoran9900 Clarke used it in his novel in 1979, but the idea was over 80 years old by then. Like the Clarke Orbit, Clarke was actively proposing it for real world use, not just dreaming it up in novels.
I read all of the Tom Swift series in the 60's. I discovered the books in 2nd grade at the school library, they would most likely be banned today. I have also read everything by Heinlein, Clark, and Asimov among others. Larry Niven's Ring World comes to mind. My mother taught me and my brother the value of a good book at a very young age, I thank her to this day. Long live the Nerds!
People should be inspired and supported to create Science fiction movies, we need more science fiction movies out there. Science fiction movies are like the playground of imagination for scientist and kids which ushers in new era's of technology inspired by science fiction. Many technology we have today as the video states are a direct inspiration from Sci Fi, for example inspirations game from Star Trek, Star Wars and many older science fiction movies/shows. It's the perfect way to get young kids who still have a very creative mind to become empowered and inspired to create things that are considered improbable. So, to all the Science fiction books,movies and show writers alive or dead, thank you for inspiring generations of scientist and engineers, because you have sure inspired me to become an engineer and help push for the future. :)
personally, i am more impressed by the predictions made by Asimov like robotics and satellites.... but those listed were kinda cool too... i remember those monster bricks... as well as the original car phones
TruckCaptain Stumpy And was it not Arthur C Clark who invented the geo-stationary satellite, without which we would all be (literally) lost. Oh and the space elevator - they're still working on that one!
there is also a slovene reference (specifically, Herman Potočnik in 1928 ) on WIKI but i cannot find a reference link or supporting citations for the reference The wiki link is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite#History
@@pixelfox9666 I spent many of my teenage years reading Heinlein's books and I never knew that The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was TMIAHM's sequel. Always stuff to learn.
@@Richard_Jones It's not obvious, because it takes place decades after TMIAHM and there's only one character in common (Hazel), but they do reference events in the first book a few times.
@@BertGrink Right. He even generated a time-lime with most of his stories placed in their proper sequence. The time-line covers thousands of years, and Lazarus Long lives through it all. I have also read every one of Heinlein's books.
Tazer... In 1971, I had mounted the guts of a photo-flash to a rubber glove. Pinky finger was +270 volts, thumb was ground. 440 microfarad capacitor gave it some bite... First time I tested it, the electrodes welded together! Good thing, too!
Scott Westerfeld actually talked about hoverboards in the Uglies trilogy. They are able to well, hover, because of a magnetic grid built under the city, and when the main characters escaped, they were still able to use the boards by going over rivers which had metal deposits. The boards were also charged using solar power cells. The boards even had fans on the underside which kept the board aloft. And the person who was hoverboarding had "crash bracelets", which were these metal bracelets that were attracted to the board, and they kept the person from falling to the ground if they ever lost balance. Someone has to make this happen--I want to be able to see and use a hoverboard!
I was reading some old Heinlein books (published in the 1930's-1940's) and one thing that actually really stunned me was a reference to the main character's asbestos-lined space suit. Sure, some science fiction writers have thought up great things, but others they got very, very wrong.
R. A. Heinlin also conceived the Water Bed. I think that was in Stranger in a Strange Land. But I was never a SciFi Nerd, it was the '70s. Grok? Aunt B
Ayup. Briefly mentioned as a therapeutic aid for Michael when he first came to Earth. Apparently when water beds were being introduced, commercially, manufacturers sent him one and he hated it.
I was always really impressed by the technology presented in Fahrenheit 451. They had wall televisions, interactive tv programs, even earphones (called "shells" in the novel). The only thing I really don't want to see become reality from that book are those robot dogs. No thank you, Ray Bradbury.
Larry Niven said he saw his writing (and all good science fiction) as a way of building "playgrounds for the mind." I think the best science fiction not only entertains us with fantastical sounding gadgets. It also makes us think, makes us wonder, makes us say, "Hey, can that be built? How would that work? We should invent this!" As for what science fiction invention I'd like to see become real....honestly? It's a tossup for me between "grav generator" and the "uterine replicator." Artificial gravity would be handy - the kind of compact "gravity generator" that could fit into vehicles of any size. These devices are in Star Wars (repulsorlift tech), but also in the Sten series where such generators are used in vessels large and small. (and if you haven't read Sten you should, it's very fun.) Uterine replicators on the other hand are a major technology in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. The idea is simple enough, a machine that can exactly imitate the environs of a natural womb. Not just human wombs either, the replicators are shown being used for livestock as well in a couple cases. Such machines open a TON of possibilities, and Bujold explores several of them in her books; but she also leaves open a lot of questions about their use and their impact on human culture. In real-world use I think it would be incredibly controversial for a lot of folks, but the options it would open - to women, to parents, to the human race - would be incredible and, potentially, incredibly liberating.
Actually, Robert A Heinlein mentioned the cell phone(he called it a pouch phone) in the 1951 novel "Between Planets". And Star Trek influenced the second generation of cell phones(flip phones) AND gave us the Tablet computer(PADD).
Next teleportation and invisibility cloak, both are real world prototypes. The invisibility is actually much near with two different approaches, metamaterials and electromagnetic fields.
Robert Heinlein invented stealth technology in "Between Planets," before Petr Ufimtsev started working on his calculations :) It's a brief passage, describing how a vehicle would reflect radar based off faceted structure.
DeathBringer9000 And hopefully augmented reality glasses are the present! Who needs a surgically implanted exocortex when you have glasses that allow you to control your phone without even touching it?
Wireless two way communication was first tried by Nikola Tesla in the mid 1890s. Tesla worked on developing radio controlled boats back in the same period.
Robert A. Heinlein is also the inventor of the waterbed. The first waterbed ever made (by the Share Water Bed Co.), was presented to him for having dreamed it up.
As an American, I'm actually pretty psyched about the notion of bringing MagLev technology to the States for inter-state travel. MagLev trains already exist in Japan and use the same technology (magnet propulsion and metal infrastructure for nearly-frictionless travel and thus high speeds), although unlike the Uglies/Pretties series, they cannot be used by one-person vehicles, only large trains.
Jules Verne also directly inspired the pioneering lighter-than-air dirigibles created and piloted by Alberto Santos-Dumont, who went on to build and fly one of the first (okay, THE first) self-propelled heavier-than-air fixed wing aircraft in the world. He took off under his own power when the Wright Brothers were still using a catapult to launch.
Except that the bases for dirigibles were hot air balloons that predated jules...for that matter leonardo davinci had drawings for powered hot air flight as I recall. Not downplaying writers...Cyrano de Bergerac wrote a story about about going to the moon in the early 1600's. Writers do push ideas, expand the world...just few ideas are completely new. The "best" writers push the boundaries but have enough "reality" that the story can still be related to.
The power of the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is very similar to how Nuclear Subs operate too. Any wonder the USA's first Nuclear Submarine was named Nautilus. And the description of the rocket required to launch men to the moon was pretty close too!
Hank, 3 decades before the Argonaut was created, the Sub Marine Explorer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Marine_Explorer) was already in use as a commercial submarine with water filled ballast chambers. It was capable of independent navigation unencumbered by connection to the surface & it was replete with a diving chamber for pearl divers to exit & return with their harvest. All this was designed & built by Julius H. Kroehl before Jules Verne published 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. While I do not doubt that Simon Lake was inspired by Verne's work & it is probably safe to assume that neither he nor Verne had never heard of the Sub Marine Explorer but, all the same, the Argonaut was not the first to accomplish some of the things described in the video. I still love the video as well as all things scientific (both factual & fictional) but I just couldn't help but share the story of the Sub Marine Explorer.
The Trojan Bulletproof Suit was originally inspired by the Halo video game series. In Halo, some special soldiers were given "Spartan" suits that increased height, stamina, strength, and were even equipped with electromagnetic force field shielding. So they were, in essence, "bulletproof". The creator of the Trojan suit set out to create a real life version of this suit, with being bulletproof and knife proof in all. Not only that, they look B.A. just like the Master Chief. AND they are similar. Spartan, Trojan. Sparta was a Roman city, whose warriors were thought to be invincible and the Trojans were a Roman army who took down an entire city with only a few hundred soldiers inside a giant wooden horse. Two B.A. kinds of people, same awesome suit. And the Trojan suits may not have EM shields, but they only cost $2k, not bad for a suit that is bulletproof and knife proof.
Nicholas Wright Yeah. But I think it's just really funny because the suit from Halo, the Spartan suit, was the original inspiration for the Trojan one in real life. Ya know, Sparta, Troy? Spartans and Trojans, both in Greek and Roman times? I don't know, seems kinda funny like a play on words to me.
Clarke publicized the idea of Geosynchronous Communication Satellites in a scientific paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays - Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in "Wireless World" magazine, not in a science fiction story. Therefore, it does not qualify.
Also in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", Adm. Kirk was able to lower the Reliant's shields by remote control and hit them with phasers. We can run a lot of devices today by remote control, TVs, appliances, drones, toys, even other computers. Then again Remote Control was invented by Nikolai Tesla in 1898.
Worth a mention is Herman Potočnik Noordung. His sole book has inspired Kubrick to write 2001: a space odyssey. In 1928 he published his book in which he described how astronauts would have to eat food in tubes because he already speculated that there is no gravity in space. He proposed that people are going to live in orbiting space stations and how special conditions in space could be used for scientific experiments. All the things stand true today. Noordung died young and was never aknowledged for his work yet his book was more than 50 years ahead of it's time. It was written less as science fiction and more like an actual book on space theory.
jules verne used a electric bullet so he technically thought of bullets,submarines,spaceships,news casts,solar sails,sky writing, video conferencing, and a splash down space ship
I am a direct descendant of James Buchanan Eads, an engineer and salvage expert in the 19th century who designed the Eads bridge in St Louis, Missouri. His work on diving bells to salvage wrecks in the Mississippi both allowed him to reinstate his fortunes more than once and also to contribute to early submersible research, especially during his work for the Union in the Civil War designing Ironclads.
If warp drives are actually possible and invented they could probably be implemented into teleporters, maybe... There are people currently working on making a miniature version to see if its possible, while an equation for how they would work has already been made. So u can keep ur hopes up XD. However they would need the use of negetive energy for the expansion of space-time, which negetive energy is currently only theoretical. BUT I BELIEVEEEEEEEEE.
that first civil war submarine was sunk because of a lucky shot at the one tiny window on the sub. this was on History channel or something and as a whole, pretty interesting subject for history. The captain of the sub once survived a bullet shot because the bullet nailed a golden coin is his pocket. When Historians found the sub and dug through its remains, they did end up finding the golden coin with a bullent ding in it. Pretty cool stuff.
I stumbled upon this clip that is, now, 6 years old. The advancements in just these past few years is remarkable. Rockets that return to Earth and autonomously land on a tail of flame just to name one.
he didn't invent it, he was just one of the first to come up with the idea and drew up a possible model that he never constructed, as with most of his "inventions". Some have later proven to work by people constructing them later on, but a wooden submarine was not one of them, as Hank mentioned in this video.
Probably one of the best things about living in this day and age is the number of awesome inventions being thought up by scientists and engineers that are reminiscent of science fiction. My personal favorite is brain-computer interfaces. The future really IS now people!!!! :D
ComandanteJ Indeed. I read his work as a child for years, before I ever knew he wrote any science fiction. His essays on various subjects were awesome.
+ComandanteJ Well, I think that he believed "I, Robot" would be more well known than other of Asimov's works because of the movie, so even non sci-fi readers would find out they know what he is talking about
+Oddman1980 Well... maybe. Although I do really think Asimov was more well known as a writer for his science fiction novels like his foundation series... I may be wrong though
mihaiandrei12 Yeah, of course, you're right. It's a shame that his work is more known for that very "so-so" movie... I mean, Will Smith is cool and all that, but the movie was highly unimpressive. I wish they did a TV series of Foundation, it wouldn't need to be about ALL of it (because that's impossible), not even be based in any particular book, just be set in that wonderful, rich and complex universe Asimov created.
and yet it was only recently that scientists realized that it was possible for life to exist on another planet without requiring water or oxygen. they had to find a microorganism that can survive that way to consider it even remotely possible, while science fiction has had life forms like that for as long as they've had extraterrestrial beings...
Well... yeah? There’s nothing wrong with that you know right? All of the inventions listed here started as an idea in a book- and an idea is what makes inventions normally. Life however isn’t started by ideas it simply is. You won’t suddenly think “Oh I bet life can survive without water and oxygen!” And have it happen. You need proof mate. So scientists only recently found proof that it was possible- don’t hate mate
5:22 Heinlein also described _the waterbed_ in Stranger in a Strange Land~ he envisioned it in a hospital setting to aid in keeping long term patients from getting bedsores.
Don't forget Geostationary Orbit - first described by Aurthur Clarke, Which is why geostat is sometimes called a "Clarke Orbit". This is where your Directv, Dish, and pretty much every other communication sattelite hangs out.
The first mention of a Cell phone in Sci-fi that I know of (one that works just like a modern pre-smart phone) was in Heinlein's Starship Troopers written in the late 50s
In the "Author´s Notes" in one of Isaac Asimov´s books, he mentions that the founder of one of the biggest industrial robot manufacturers took inspiration from Asimov´s own Robot stories. Bonus fact: Elsewhere, Asimov also notes that he has been credited for coining the word "Robotics"; when he first used that word in writing, he was convinced that it already existed.
Any one heard of Edward E. Hale who wrote "The Man Without a Country"? In 1869, he wrote "The Brick Moon", the first known mention of a satellite and space station in literature.
Doug Mangum If I recall correctly, I won my copy of "The Man Without a Country" when I was in the Fifth Grade. I was amazed that I won, because it came down to a vote in the class between a popular girl and myself. We both had to leave the room while the class voted. When we returned, we found out that I won. That has always seemed odd to me.
please do more of these! the MRI creator said he was inspired by the tricorder on Star Trek, and communication satellites are attributed to Clarke, as well as the idea for the space elevator. in Childhood's End, he describes a fax machine - that was 1938, i think. there are so many - please do more of them!!
You could do a video of tech inspired by Star Trek alone -cell phone, obv. -bluetooth earpieces -floppy discs -MRI -transparent aluminum -tablet PCs -3D printer -voice assistants -military command bridges, seriously. -remote/robotic surgeons -artificial skin and ultrasonic healing devices -actual tricorders
I discovered Sci-Fi a couple years ago with Ender's Game and I love it. However, I really don't care how many degrees an author has if they can't write interesting characters. And remember what their characters are wearing. I got the Ringworld quartet last Christmas, I almost threw "Ringworld's Children" across my room when the author forgot the character was wearing a spacesuit so he wouldn't smell anything, and two pages later described something by smell. My favorite authors right now are David Weber (I'm in the middle of the Honor Harrington series), Orson Scott Card (because he wrote my current favorite book, Xenocide), Nancy Kress (I have two of her novellas, she shows cool ideas with believable characters, I need more), and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, for the Liaden Universe, which is amazing, and would contain my favorite book, if I could pick one of them as a favorite. "I Dare," maybe.
Lol my mom didn't like it, and I was wary of getting it because it had lots of negative reviews on audible. After I finished it I couldn't wait to read the next one though.
Leonid Kupriyanovich designed the first mobile phones in the USSR in the 1960s, basically a walki talkie that sent calls through communication nodes, much simpler than even the brick phones from the 90s, but the idea began with him.
1. Jules Verne's Capt. Nemo had leyden-bullet rifles 41 years before Tom Swift's e'rifle... 2. Cellphones suffer a little-noticed deficiency: they're not globally-global but civilizational... (which is not something you'd notice 'til you sail the seven seas covering ⅞ of the Earth)
*_..."Tom Swift" also had lots of devices not so commercially successful, such as a voice discriminator to separate out conversations at a party (or that's the way I supposed he intended), which is still a ways off but someday computers will be able to compute it..._*
the Tom Swift books were actually very cool, remember a few of the stories dealt with rare earth minerals and one in particular that had him building a containment tank for a visiting alien made of pure energy.
Heinlein also invented the waterbed, although his was a therapeutic device. But, it was cited as prior art when someone later tried to file for a patent on the waterbed.
My dad LOVES sci-fi books! But he's like the most stern looking, military stance but amazingly lovely guy that you would never expect to be reading Terry Pratchet or enjoying my teen sci-fi 😂
Star Trek also inspired Tablets. It's also worth mentioning that many functions of the Samsung S series (Specifically 3 and beyond), have the function where it scrolls down when you read to a specific point or when it stops a video while you look away from it, were inspired from the Harry Potter series.
Speaking of Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a pretty realistic possibility in the coming decades. And speaking of Taser - the Tasp from Ringworld is way better, yet to come.
Hover-board: made out of battery-operated room-temperature superconductors (Insulated on one side to protect the rider). And skate parks made from metallic, conductive surfaces.
You're forgetting the greatest of them all, the Retroprototurbo Encabulator; which operates on magneto reluctance rather than the relative motion of magnetic fluxes, with a revolutionary implementation of the dingle-arm to reduce side fumbling.
For the cell phone it is not just the phone, it is the whole infrastructure of radio towers that form the cells that hand off the phone from one tower to the next without dropping the call that is the great invention.
Saw the headline, and made my own list to compare: Communications satellites (Clarke), cellphones (Star Trek), waldoes and waterbeds (Heinlein). Didn't know the submarine story, and am embarrassed I didn't think of Tasers. ;)
In the 1940's, Isaac Asimov postulated the three laws of Robotics - which are still used today. An employee in a University in the USA (I think he was a professor, or something), read these three laws and was inspired to resign and start a company building industrial robots. That company was the first to build industrial robots, and as far as I know it is still doing that today. I have read all of Asimov's science fiction - at least, I think so, I can't find anything that I haven't read - (it's taken me over 50 years, and I read fast!) and he's a true inspiration. Also, I read 20.000 leagues under the sea when I was about 8 years ols, and then found that the USA submarine Nautilus had just been launched. I was stunned. Science fiction became reality in my lifetime. Now I'm just waiting for the Enterprise to be built. (The space ship, that is!).
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Woah
He said that in the video dipshits
Darley Moreno That's what I'm saying, ass-for-brains.
Ravenwell Hey hey, stop the name calling you asshats
Ravenlay Jules Verne beat Mr Swift too it though.....oddly enough in the same book they referenced for submarines. Except it wasn't a stun gun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_ball
Asimov often mentioned household computer terminals where a person could ask any question, and an answer would be generated from a centralized database containing nearly all human knowledge. This was many decades before the internet.
sounds like alexa lol
A Logic© named Joe...
Or Gordon Dickson's Final Encyclopedia.
On Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love.
Chris Clifford I was thinking something along the lines of a Wikipedia-Google hybrid. A comprehensive knowledge source mixed with statement parsing and intuitive search result handling.
They forgot something else from Star Trek, something so common we hardly take notice of it as being strange and new anymore.
Doors that sense the approach of someone and open by themselves.
Yeah but our doors just open. The cool sci fi ones go WHOOSH in like a spiraling extremely inefficient pattern. We need those.
Dan Gould Well, I suspect the whoosh sound is an audio-effect to get the crew's attention, like the buzzing the door makes at Radio Shack, or the "ding" when an elevator arrives on your floor.
Starships are busy places, & people can get caught up in something else while waiting for the lift to arrive. The whoosh could be to alert people the lift doors are opening.
I remember one episode where Picard wasn't watching, and the doors opened but there was no turbo lift there !
He nearly walked into the lift shaft, but managed to jump at the last moment and grabbed the lift cables.
Then, the doors closed behind him and he was left hanging there. . . D :
Or . . . maybe that was The Bob Newhart show, I don't remember for sure.
TheNoiseySpectator Star Treck, Bob Newhart, they are basically the same thing.
Actually, the "Doors that sense the approach of someone and open by themselves" were invented over 20 years before Star Trek aired.
Anacronian Ah, the good old "photoelectric effect".
But, didn't such doors come into service in the 1970's, about the same time Star Trek became popular?
Star Trek has literally been on TV for all of my life, so I don't remember what things were like before it first aired.
Robert Heinlein is also credited with inventing the waterbed, which he described in _Stranger in a Strange Land._
Actually, they first show up in _Beyond This Horizon_ (another of Heinlein's works) in 1942. The idea is a bit older though, with a variation showing up in the 1830s, developed by Scottish physician Neil Arnott.
@@GoranXII though heinlein's description was so well detailed that all patents were refused on waterbeds. This led to their great popularity, since anyone with the means to produce them could do so.
@@thicklydelicious From what I understand, that was one reason he did it.
And the 3D printer which e described i Assignment in Eternity part 1 or 2 can't remember which. He described it as a machine in which you put in sausage and got out dog. Like Clarke and Asimov he described a lot of things which later came true.
Fahrenheit 451 was pretty good at predicting technology like earbuds and flatscreen TVs, although I have no idea if it actually inspired any of them
Not only where they ear buds
But they where also wireless
Not only did the novel have flatscreens, but they covered all four walls, giving the impression of a 3-dimensional space in which the soap operas played out.
How could you possibly omit Clarke's geostationary communications satellite? Its called the "Clarke Orbit" for a reason!
Probably because Clarke actually proposed it in a letter and then expanded on it in a scientific paper. He didn't introduce it to the world as part of a sci-fi story.
binkey That's true
@@binkey3374 but should have been mentioned when guy mention him
@@binkey3374 I did not know that. When we build one, he will also have inspired the space elevator.
@@corneliuscorcoran9900 Clarke used it in his novel in 1979, but the idea was over 80 years old by then. Like the Clarke Orbit, Clarke was actively proposing it for real world use, not just dreaming it up in novels.
I read all of the Tom Swift series in the 60's. I discovered the books in 2nd grade at the school library, they would most likely be banned today. I have also read everything by Heinlein, Clark, and Asimov among others. Larry Niven's Ring World comes to mind. My mother taught me and my brother the value of a good book at a very young age, I thank her to this day. Long live the Nerds!
People should be inspired and supported to create Science fiction movies, we need more science fiction movies out there. Science fiction movies are like the playground of imagination for scientist and kids which ushers in new era's of technology inspired by science fiction. Many technology we have today as the video states are a direct inspiration from Sci Fi, for example inspirations game from Star Trek, Star Wars and many older science fiction movies/shows. It's the perfect way to get young kids who still have a very creative mind to become empowered and inspired to create things that are considered improbable. So, to all the Science fiction books,movies and show writers alive or dead, thank you for inspiring generations of scientist and engineers, because you have sure inspired me to become an engineer and help push for the future. :)
my galaxy s3 also holds a 30 minute charge.
Yeah mine too, because the battery wasn't changed since 2012... (I use it as an emergency phone when my S9 isnt available lol)
I still use s3neo as my every day phone. It does everything just fine, no need to change ;)
My old s5 lasted 30 minutes while playing Pokémon go
@@siralfredo My S4 lasted about 1.5 hours. With a new battery. And randomly decided to shut off at 20 to 40% battery life.
personally, i am more impressed by the predictions made by Asimov like robotics and satellites.... but those listed were kinda cool too...
i remember those monster bricks... as well as the original car phones
TruckCaptain Stumpy And was it not Arthur C Clark who invented the geo-stationary satellite, without which we would all be (literally) lost. Oh and the space elevator - they're still working on that one!
John Benton
?? i didn't say Clarke did... i think the video might have... but they were referring likely to this : lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/
there is also a slovene reference (specifically, Herman Potočnik in 1928 ) on WIKI but i cannot find a reference link or supporting citations for the reference
The wiki link is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite#History
"nerds are the most dangerous people on Earth" - Bill Burr
I mean, multi bottle rocket, strongest earthbound item.
No, it's the men in suits!
*cough* P.A Luty
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" Was a *fantastic* book.
So was its sequel, "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls".
@@pixelfox9666 I spent many of my teenage years reading Heinlein's books and I never knew that The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was TMIAHM's sequel. Always stuff to learn.
@@Richard_Jones It's not obvious, because it takes place decades after TMIAHM and there's only one character in common (Hazel), but they do reference events in the first book a few times.
In fact, a _lot_ of Heinleins stories were interconnected
@@BertGrink Right. He even generated a time-lime with most of his stories placed in their proper sequence. The time-line covers thousands of years, and Lazarus Long lives through it all. I have also read every one of Heinlein's books.
In his book 2001, Clarke describes Floyd reading the news on a computer screen, and headlines where updated regularly. Sounds familiar ?
What I took away from this:
Just in general leave elephants alone.
And dont tase your friends, even for fun.
But what about the Red Pygmies?
Given the two options, name my first born son either "Waldo" or "Master-Slave Manipulator Mk8" i know which i'd pick.. Waldo is a stupid name.
Tcesare and Spohnronia would appreciate play dates(, I might have children by those names in 5+ years or so)
roflmao
Considering how Elon Musk named his son, both choices don't sound that bad.
I like Waldo precisely because it’s “stupid”.
OP should probably just name his kids Zim and Gir lol
Tazer...
In 1971, I had mounted the guts of a photo-flash to a rubber glove.
Pinky finger was +270 volts, thumb was ground.
440 microfarad capacitor gave it some bite...
First time I tested it, the electrodes welded together!
Good thing, too!
Proctologist, are you?
Another thing by Robert A. Heinlein.......power armor.
kittylactose damn right. Starship Troopers. precursor to Warhammer 40K Space Marines.
Also, water beds.
Scott Westerfeld actually talked about hoverboards in the Uglies trilogy. They are able to well, hover, because of a magnetic grid built under the city, and when the main characters escaped, they were still able to use the boards by going over rivers which had metal deposits. The boards were also charged using solar power cells. The boards even had fans on the underside which kept the board aloft. And the person who was hoverboarding had "crash bracelets", which were these metal bracelets that were attracted to the board, and they kept the person from falling to the ground if they ever lost balance.
Someone has to make this happen--I want to be able to see and use a hoverboard!
I want a universal translator.
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dasdew2 Then shut up and stick this fish in your ear.
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Theres the google translate app
And a mechanical depressed robot!
Shadowthief Gaming With a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side?
+dasdew2 And I want an infinite improbability drive for my car.
I was reading some old Heinlein books (published in the 1930's-1940's) and one thing that actually really stunned me was a reference to the main character's asbestos-lined space suit. Sure, some science fiction writers have thought up great things, but others they got very, very wrong.
R. A. Heinlin also conceived the Water Bed. I think that was in Stranger in a Strange Land.
But I was never a SciFi Nerd, it was the '70s. Grok?
Aunt B
I think water beds were around since the 60s.
Ayup. Briefly mentioned as a therapeutic aid for Michael when he first came to Earth. Apparently when water beds were being introduced, commercially, manufacturers sent him one and he hated it.
I grok it. To me, Stranger in a Strange Land, was as good as drugs.
I was always really impressed by the technology presented in Fahrenheit 451. They had wall televisions, interactive tv programs, even earphones (called "shells" in the novel). The only thing I really don't want to see become reality from that book are those robot dogs. No thank you, Ray Bradbury.
If I were you I wouldn't look up military robotics research. That robotic mule is rather forbidding if you have Fahrenheit 451 in mind.
If I were you, I´d write a stern letter of disapproval to Boston Dynamics.
Larry Niven said he saw his writing (and all good science fiction) as a way of building "playgrounds for the mind." I think the best science fiction not only entertains us with fantastical sounding gadgets. It also makes us think, makes us wonder, makes us say, "Hey, can that be built? How would that work? We should invent this!"
As for what science fiction invention I'd like to see become real....honestly? It's a tossup for me between "grav generator" and the "uterine replicator."
Artificial gravity would be handy - the kind of compact "gravity generator" that could fit into vehicles of any size. These devices are in Star Wars (repulsorlift tech), but also in the Sten series where such generators are used in vessels large and small. (and if you haven't read Sten you should, it's very fun.)
Uterine replicators on the other hand are a major technology in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. The idea is simple enough, a machine that can exactly imitate the environs of a natural womb. Not just human wombs either, the replicators are shown being used for livestock as well in a couple cases. Such machines open a TON of possibilities, and Bujold explores several of them in her books; but she also leaves open a lot of questions about their use and their impact on human culture. In real-world use I think it would be incredibly controversial for a lot of folks, but the options it would open - to women, to parents, to the human race - would be incredible and, potentially, incredibly liberating.
Artificial wombs are used in breeding sharks.
"dont go tasering your friends for fun" looking at you, michael reeves
Actually, Robert A Heinlein mentioned the cell phone(he called it a pouch phone) in the 1951 novel "Between Planets". And Star Trek influenced the second generation of cell phones(flip phones) AND gave us the Tablet computer(PADD).
He also had a wireless phone in the YA novel, Space Cadet.
We have less than 2 years to get Hoverboards to the market! They were all over the place by 2015, according to the movie! Let's get going!
They actually have them, till working out some bugs.
David Kelly who?
David Kelly theres a video of scishow that explains the "hoverboard"
***** i know...thats what the video says...
ihatepia
its called the water hoverboard
Next teleportation and invisibility cloak, both are real world prototypes.
The invisibility is actually much near with two different approaches, metamaterials and electromagnetic fields.
count no of times he raises his glasses lol.
Robert Heinlein invented stealth technology in "Between Planets," before Petr Ufimtsev started working on his calculations :) It's a brief passage, describing how a vehicle would reflect radar based off faceted structure.
The H.L. Hunley was never commissioned as a CSS ship, thus no CSS prefix, it is and was always just called "H.L. Hunley" after the inventor.
I'd like to see hover boards too. Back To the Future II reference. :)
They exist now! Just search Hendo Hoverboard on TH-cam to see
xxbeatuupzz I've seen some videos of progress being made. Very soon.
But what sucks is that the hover board has to be on a metallic sort surface.
+Roger Hoyt
CBC News from May 2015:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montrealer-sets-world-record-for-farthest-flight-by-hoverboard-1.3085052
handheld is the past, neuro-implants are the future
agreed.
DeathBringer9000 Ikr, where's our brain chips. xD lol
DeathBringer9000 And hopefully augmented reality glasses are the present! Who needs a surgically implanted exocortex when you have glasses that allow you to control your phone without even touching it?
Read Sycamore by Craig A Falconer.
@@joshuahunt3032 I dont know, Google tried that with Google glasses and they were a failure.
The jokes on you! My cell phone was on a charger!
Mine was charging to! Lol
mines dead and i cant find my charger so ha
@@kayrose6670 did ya find it haha
Wireless two way communication was first tried by Nikola Tesla in the mid 1890s. Tesla worked on developing radio controlled boats back in the same period.
Robert A. Heinlein is also the inventor of the waterbed. The first waterbed ever made (by the Share Water Bed Co.), was presented to him for having dreamed it up.
What about transparent aluminum? Another Star Trek imagining that came true ; )
Im the book pretties there are hover board like things that are "hovered" by magnetic fields in the ground, which is possible
Very possible, but sadly very expensive.
As an American, I'm actually pretty psyched about the notion of bringing MagLev technology to the States for inter-state travel. MagLev trains already exist in Japan and use the same technology (magnet propulsion and metal infrastructure for nearly-frictionless travel and thus high speeds), although unlike the Uglies/Pretties series, they cannot be used by one-person vehicles, only large trains.
Wow, I'm not the only person in the world who has read that book.
Don't they /sort of/ have tazer guns in 20,000 leagues under the sea ?
Yes, yes they do!
So Jules Vernes again, huh ?
Roberto Fontiglia Indeed, Monsieur Verne, once more!
And he strikes again with the whole going to the moon and stuff...
Pneumatic rifle shooting glass condensators.
Jules Verne also directly inspired the pioneering lighter-than-air dirigibles created and piloted by Alberto Santos-Dumont, who went on to build and fly one of the first (okay, THE first) self-propelled heavier-than-air fixed wing aircraft in the world. He took off under his own power when the Wright Brothers were still using a catapult to launch.
Except that the bases for dirigibles were hot air balloons that predated jules...for that matter leonardo davinci had drawings for powered hot air flight as I recall.
Not downplaying writers...Cyrano de Bergerac wrote a story about about going to the moon in the early 1600's. Writers do push ideas, expand the world...just few ideas are completely new. The "best" writers push the boundaries but have enough "reality" that the story can still be related to.
The power of the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is very similar to how Nuclear Subs operate too. Any wonder the USA's first Nuclear Submarine was named Nautilus.
And the description of the rocket required to launch men to the moon was pretty close too!
Hank, 3 decades before the Argonaut was created, the Sub Marine Explorer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Marine_Explorer) was already in use as a commercial submarine with water filled ballast chambers. It was capable of independent navigation unencumbered by connection to the surface & it was replete with a diving chamber for pearl divers to exit & return with their harvest. All this was designed & built by Julius H. Kroehl before Jules Verne published 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. While I do not doubt that Simon Lake was inspired by Verne's work & it is probably safe to assume that neither he nor Verne had never heard of the Sub Marine Explorer but, all the same, the Argonaut was not the first to accomplish some of the things described in the video. I still love the video as well as all things scientific (both factual & fictional) but I just couldn't help but share the story of the Sub Marine Explorer.
Science is 75% thinking 25% making. Usually thinking of something than making it happen is easier than just winging it.
More like 75% Thinking, 20% Making, and 5% pizza.
Lots and lots of pizza.
Thomas Edison used to say that Invention was 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration.
Why can't you be my science teacher? I want you to be my science teacher. Science class would be 100000x more amazing if you were my science teacher.
i have recently seen a couple of episodes from Star Trek TOS and I couldn't help but think nokia when I saw those simple phones
I want a replicator, like the ones from Star Trek.
Imagine never having to wait for the pizza guy...
Where's my sonic screw driver then?
FUCK OFF
what?
I AM genuinely confused tho
MariaMcCookie don't be confused, just look at him. you really think he gets your Dr. Who reference?
i got the reference, i just found it to be extremely retarded
The Trojan Bulletproof Suit was originally inspired by the Halo video game series. In Halo, some special soldiers were given "Spartan" suits that increased height, stamina, strength, and were even equipped with electromagnetic force field shielding. So they were, in essence, "bulletproof". The creator of the Trojan suit set out to create a real life version of this suit, with being bulletproof and knife proof in all. Not only that, they look B.A. just like the Master Chief. AND they are similar. Spartan, Trojan. Sparta was a Roman city, whose warriors were thought to be invincible and the Trojans were a Roman army who took down an entire city with only a few hundred soldiers inside a giant wooden horse. Two B.A. kinds of people, same awesome suit. And the Trojan suits may not have EM shields, but they only cost $2k, not bad for a suit that is bulletproof and knife proof.
um.. i think you mean Greek.
darkslayer366 Whoops, yeah, that's what I meant. I was thinking of something else at the time I wrote this... Yeah, sorry.
It's cool.
TheTriforceCrusader also the trojans were the ones who were defeated like that they were badass because any conventional siege failed
Nicholas Wright Yeah. But I think it's just really funny because the suit from Halo, the Spartan suit, was the original inspiration for the Trojan one in real life. Ya know, Sparta, Troy? Spartans and Trojans, both in Greek and Roman times? I don't know, seems kinda funny like a play on words to me.
You totally missed Arthur C. Clarke's Geosynchronous Communication Satellites.
Clarke publicized the idea of Geosynchronous Communication Satellites in a scientific paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays - Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in "Wireless World" magazine, not in a science fiction story. Therefore, it does not qualify.
Also in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", Adm. Kirk was able to lower the Reliant's shields by remote control and hit them with phasers.
We can run a lot of devices today by remote control, TVs, appliances, drones, toys,
even other computers.
Then again Remote Control was invented by Nikolai Tesla in 1898.
Worth a mention is Herman Potočnik Noordung. His sole book has inspired Kubrick to write 2001: a space odyssey. In 1928 he published his book in which he described how astronauts would have to eat food in tubes because he already speculated that there is no gravity in space. He proposed that people are going to live in orbiting space stations and how special conditions in space could be used for scientific experiments. All the things stand true today. Noordung died young and was never aknowledged for his work yet his book was more than 50 years ahead of it's time. It was written less as science fiction and more like an actual book on space theory.
I can't wait for my time machine.
Want to get together and make one?
+Cheb “MageDesigns” Azame I'll get mine yesterday and I made it tomorrow.
+Cheb “MageDesigns” Azame I'll get mine yesterday and I made it tomorrow.
Just be careful not to create a paradox if you travel through the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, but if you do, be sure to call the Doctor.
Why we don`t have gloves that allows you to touch virtual objects?
Because then people could put em' on your clothes and boom,your a real life mime.
we do they're not very useful
vr fuckmachines are useful tho
power glove
Yes
one word: expensive
jules verne used a electric bullet so he technically thought of bullets,submarines,spaceships,news casts,solar sails,sky writing, video conferencing, and a splash down space ship
I am a direct descendant of James Buchanan Eads, an engineer and salvage expert in the 19th century who designed the Eads bridge in St Louis, Missouri. His work on diving bells to salvage wrecks in the Mississippi both allowed him to reinstate his fortunes more than once and also to contribute to early submersible research, especially during his work for the Union in the Civil War designing Ironclads.
"Give me that saw" said Tom offhandedly.
Tom Swifty!
Someone recently flew a hoverboard across the English channel.
We need transpoters now. I hate driving to work.
bike there
Dude! Its 38 miles and half the year its freezing snow. Beaming to work would be a lot cooler.
ah see I didn't know that... beaming myself around town would be pretty cool
The best part, I get to make a$$ jokes about my ride.
If warp drives are actually possible and invented they could probably be implemented into teleporters, maybe...
There are people currently working on making a miniature version to see if its possible, while an equation for how they would work has already been made. So u can keep ur hopes up XD. However they would need the use of negetive energy for the expansion of space-time, which negetive energy is currently only theoretical. BUT I BELIEVEEEEEEEEE.
So what about the enterprise from Star Trek if not my dreams are crushed
You mean that ship NASA is building that tries bending space-time to effectively teleport at 10x the speed of light? That's my favourite one.
that first civil war submarine was sunk because of a lucky shot at the one tiny window on the sub. this was on History channel or something and as a whole, pretty interesting subject for history. The captain of the sub once survived a bullet shot because the bullet nailed a golden coin is his pocket. When Historians found the sub and dug through its remains, they did end up finding the golden coin with a bullent ding in it. Pretty cool stuff.
I stumbled upon this clip that is, now, 6 years old. The advancements in just these past few years is remarkable. Rockets that return to Earth and autonomously land on a tail of flame just to name one.
Yeah seriously. Hover boards. We need them.
When do we get a TARDIS
tro dat plus fazerd
phaser
Carrie Fox We have phasers.
Be a Time Lord from Gallifrey and steal one from the TARDIS garage.
Da Vinci invented the submarine.
and the helicopter, and the plane and the tank, and porbebly some more stuff
to invent don't you have to create a workable rendition?
he didn't invent it, he was just one of the first to come up with the idea and drew up a possible model that he never constructed, as with most of his "inventions". Some have later proven to work by people constructing them later on, but a wooden submarine was not one of them, as Hank mentioned in this video.
GIboy1990 Everyone stole his ideas and made working renditions... There's plenty of stuff he made that didnt survive to this day.
The word you're looking for is "posit" or "postulate".
This has to be my favourite channel on youtube, our whole family watches it. Keep up the good work. :^)
Probably one of the best things about living in this day and age is the number of awesome inventions being thought up by scientists and engineers that are reminiscent of science fiction. My personal favorite is brain-computer interfaces. The future really IS now people!!!! :D
..."I, Robot author Isaac Asimov"?!?!?! Seriously? you pick that as his highlith? LOL
ComandanteJ Indeed. I read his work as a child for years, before I ever knew he wrote any science fiction. His essays on various subjects were awesome.
+ComandanteJ Well, I think that he believed "I, Robot" would be more well known than other of Asimov's works because of the movie, so even non sci-fi readers would find out they know what he is talking about
+Oddman1980 Well... maybe. Although I do really think Asimov was more well known as a writer for his science fiction novels like his foundation series... I may be wrong though
mihaiandrei12 Yeah, of course, you're right. It's a shame that his work is more known for that very "so-so" movie... I mean, Will Smith is cool and all that, but the movie was highly unimpressive. I wish they did a TV series of Foundation, it wouldn't need to be about ALL of it (because that's impossible), not even be based in any particular book, just be set in that wonderful, rich and complex universe Asimov created.
I robot is also an episode from the outer limits television show
and yet it was only recently that scientists realized that it was possible for life to exist on another planet without requiring water or oxygen. they had to find a microorganism that can survive that way to consider it even remotely possible, while science fiction has had life forms like that for as long as they've had extraterrestrial beings...
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Well... yeah? There’s nothing wrong with that you know right? All of the inventions listed here started as an idea in a book- and an idea is what makes inventions normally. Life however isn’t started by ideas it simply is. You won’t suddenly think “Oh I bet life can survive without water and oxygen!” And have it happen. You need proof mate. So scientists only recently found proof that it was possible- don’t hate mate
And to them, we're just ugly bags of mostly water.
I love the line. "from varying levels of intensity, from tickle, to kill"
Hank, you are AWESOME! I Love SciShow!
5:22 Heinlein also described _the waterbed_ in Stranger in a Strange Land~ he envisioned it in a hospital setting to aid in keeping long term patients from getting bedsores.
Another great episode!
Don't forget Geostationary Orbit - first described by Aurthur Clarke, Which is why geostat is sometimes called a "Clarke Orbit". This is where your Directv, Dish, and pretty much every other communication sattelite hangs out.
The first mention of a Cell phone in Sci-fi that I know of (one that works just like a modern pre-smart phone) was in Heinlein's Starship Troopers written in the late 50s
You guys are so awesome! I love scishow!
In the "Author´s Notes" in one of Isaac Asimov´s books, he mentions that the founder of one of the biggest industrial robot manufacturers took inspiration from Asimov´s own Robot stories.
Bonus fact: Elsewhere, Asimov also notes that he has been credited for coining the word "Robotics"; when he first used that word in writing, he was convinced that it already existed.
Any one heard of Edward E. Hale who wrote "The Man Without a Country"?
In 1869, he wrote "The Brick Moon", the first known mention of a satellite and space station in literature.
I read "The Man Without a Country" when I was a young boy, and I've heard of "The Brick Moon."
Richard Alexander Great!
Doug Mangum If I recall correctly, I won my copy of "The Man Without a Country" when I was in the Fifth Grade. I was amazed that I won, because it came down to a vote in the class between a popular girl and myself. We both had to leave the room while the class voted. When we returned, we found out that I won. That has always seemed odd to me.
please do more of these! the MRI creator said he was inspired by the tricorder on Star Trek, and communication satellites are attributed to Clarke, as well as the idea for the space elevator. in Childhood's End, he describes a fax machine - that was 1938, i think. there are so many - please do more of them!!
This was edited really well.
the first time I've read the word "Terabyte" it was in Clarke's "3001: Final odissey"
'3001" was published in 1997. Even though terabytes weren't commercially available at the time they weren't fictional.
You could do a video of tech inspired by Star Trek alone
-cell phone, obv.
-bluetooth earpieces
-floppy discs
-MRI
-transparent aluminum
-tablet PCs
-3D printer
-voice assistants
-military command bridges, seriously.
-remote/robotic surgeons
-artificial skin and ultrasonic healing devices
-actual tricorders
Wayne Green was probably the most influential in the development of the cell phone and also much of ham radio technology.
I discovered Sci-Fi a couple years ago with Ender's Game and I love it. However, I really don't care how many degrees an author has if they can't write interesting characters. And remember what their characters are wearing. I got the Ringworld quartet last Christmas, I almost threw "Ringworld's Children" across my room when the author forgot the character was wearing a spacesuit so he wouldn't smell anything, and two pages later described something by smell.
My favorite authors right now are David Weber (I'm in the middle of the Honor Harrington series), Orson Scott Card (because he wrote my current favorite book, Xenocide), Nancy Kress (I have two of her novellas, she shows cool ideas with believable characters, I need more), and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, for the Liaden Universe, which is amazing, and would contain my favorite book, if I could pick one of them as a favorite. "I Dare," maybe.
I have never encountered another person who loves Xenocide.
Lol my mom didn't like it, and I was wary of getting it because it had lots of negative reviews on audible. After I finished it I couldn't wait to read the next one though.
You also read speaker for the dead, right?
Yup, and Children of the mind, and Shadows, and Earth Unaware/Afire/Awakens.
3 days just watching this videos.. his voice is starting to drill in my skull
Leonid Kupriyanovich designed the first mobile phones in the USSR in the 1960s, basically a walki talkie that sent calls through communication nodes, much simpler than even the brick phones from the 90s, but the idea began with him.
One more for you-- Frank Herbert and the Dracone Barge. It was developed after his story The Dragon in the Sea, a story about stealing oil.
Nice touch with the Edison reference. I'm sure some people miss that..
1. Jules Verne's Capt. Nemo had leyden-bullet rifles 41 years before Tom Swift's e'rifle... 2. Cellphones suffer a little-noticed deficiency: they're not globally-global but civilizational... (which is not something you'd notice 'til you sail the seven seas covering ⅞ of the Earth)
*_..."Tom Swift" also had lots of devices not so commercially successful, such as a voice discriminator to separate out conversations at a party (or that's the way I supposed he intended), which is still a ways off but someday computers will be able to compute it..._*
the Tom Swift books were actually very cool, remember a few of the stories dealt with rare earth minerals and one in particular that had him building a containment tank for a visiting alien made of pure energy.
Jules Verne - in '20,00 Leagues Under the Sea' - also described SCUBA, which was later invented by Jacques Cousteau.
Heinlein also invented the waterbed, although his was a therapeutic device. But, it was cited as prior art when someone later tried to file for a patent on the waterbed.
My dad LOVES sci-fi books! But he's like the most stern looking, military stance but amazingly lovely guy that you would never expect to be reading Terry Pratchet or enjoying my teen sci-fi 😂
I'm not a nerd but i love you're channel cause learning IS cool, one love
Star Trek also inspired Tablets. It's also worth mentioning that many functions of the Samsung S series (Specifically 3 and beyond), have the function where it scrolls down when you read to a specific point or when it stops a video while you look away from it, were inspired from the Harry Potter series.
Speaking of Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a pretty realistic possibility in the coming decades.
And speaking of Taser - the Tasp from Ringworld is way better, yet to come.
Hover-board: made out of battery-operated room-temperature superconductors (Insulated on one side to protect the rider). And skate parks made from metallic, conductive surfaces.
You're forgetting the greatest of them all, the Retroprototurbo Encabulator; which operates on magneto reluctance rather than the relative motion of magnetic fluxes, with a revolutionary implementation of the dingle-arm to reduce side fumbling.
For the cell phone it is not just the phone, it is the whole infrastructure of radio towers that form the cells that hand off the phone from one tower to the next without dropping the call that is the great invention.
Saw the headline, and made my own list to compare: Communications satellites (Clarke), cellphones (Star Trek), waldoes and waterbeds (Heinlein).
Didn't know the submarine story, and am embarrassed I didn't think of Tasers. ;)
In the 1940's, Isaac Asimov postulated the three laws of Robotics - which are still used today. An employee in a University in the USA (I think he was a professor, or something), read these three laws and was inspired to resign and start a company building industrial robots. That company was the first to build industrial robots, and as far as I know it is still doing that today. I have read all of Asimov's science fiction - at least, I think so, I can't find anything that I haven't read - (it's taken me over 50 years, and I read fast!) and he's a true inspiration. Also, I read 20.000 leagues under the sea when I was about 8 years ols, and then found that the USA submarine Nautilus had just been launched. I was stunned. Science fiction became reality in my lifetime. Now I'm just waiting for the Enterprise to be built. (The space ship, that is!).