Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: 1293 Machines That Dreamed Us First: How Science Fiction Built the Future We Now Live
Description: FOLLOW RICHARD
Website: https://www.strangeplanet.ca
YouTube: @strangeplanetradio
Instagram: @richardsyrettstrangeplanet
TikTok: @therealstrangeplanet
EP. #1293 Machines That Dreamed Us First: How Science Fiction Built the Future We Now Live
Tonight, in Part Two of our four-part series, we plunge into the mechanical heart of science fiction—and the chilling realization that our world of drones, algorithms, and AI was imagined long before it was built. From Čapek’s enslaved robots to Asimov’s hopeful laws, from Wells’s remote-controlled war machines to Orwell’s watchful screens, the blueprints were drawn...