How Science Fiction Imagined the Internet

Episode 70

We were promised flying cars and we got Twitter instead. That's the common complaint against sci-fi authors. But some writers did imagine the telecommunications that changed our world for better or worse. Cory Doctorow, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton and Arizona State University professor Ed Finn look at the cyberpunks and their predecessors. And artist Paul St George talks about why he's fascinated by a Skype-like machine from the Victorian era.

How Science Fiction Imagined the Internet

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MUSIC LIST

• Perish by Sono Sanctus

• ​​Unanswered Questions by Kevin MacLeod

• Cyberpunk Underscore by Sono Sanctus

• Imaginary Sunset by Alexis Cuadrado

• The Deep Web by Sono Sanctus

• The Built World by Sono Sanctus