Isaac Asimov

[Monkeh]

Science fiction in the 50's and 60's was rife.... and kind of accurate... but what is today's science fiction? is there any?

Not exactly new, but HIGHLY recommended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_cantos

 

[Inky Pete]

I must confess to not having seen anything in 50's Sci Fi that was remotely accurate,

Arthur C Clarke predicted the use of ge0-stationary satelites for communications and TV back in 1945.

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), he also wrote of a device remarkably similar to an iPad which was used for viewing electronic versions of newspapers etc from all around the world.

H G Wells predicted armoured warfare in 1903 when he wrote Land of the Ironclads. The very first tanks weren't built until 1916.

Virtual Reality games were predicted in 1956 - again by Clarke.

Ray Bradbury wrote of small in-ear earphones in Farenheit 451 (1950)

Skype, and other forms of video phone, were common in various sci-fi stories as far back as Ralph 124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback in 1911.

There's hundreds of other examples. In fact, there's very little about modern life which HASN'T been predicted by sci-fi writers over the years.

 

[Monkeh]

Predicted or shaped by expectations?

 

[ColJack]

mobile flip phones = Star Trek comunicators...