Ask HN: Best sci-fi for near term future?

11 points·tmaly··6 comments

I have always thought some of William Gibson's more recent stuff could become a reality in the near term future.

What other sci-fi authors do you think also do well with near term future predictions?

The society depicted in Stand on Zanzibar doesn't seem that far off from today's world.

Probably with all the LLMs out there and AI gadgets popping out, it wouldn't be too far to have a new kind of Human Computer Interaction Interface, maybe not voice, but maybe even thoughts or some sort of new ways of interactions, subtle but way more context aware and versatile with the amount of input required to be very very less.

Ravage by René Barjavel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes

Charles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.

Later he wrote more down-to-earth visions of the near future in Halting State and Rule 34. He originally planned it as a trilogy, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(novel)#Sequel_cancell...

Following the revelations by Edward Snowden, Stross announced that there would be no third book in the planned trilogy. "Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?)."

Philip K Dick when he writes about paying the door to open is getting pretty close.

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