Literature and Medicine
This 1818 novel about a scientist using electricity to bring a creature to life inspired the first wearable pacemaker.
What is Frankenstein?
his French writer’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon featured a three-person crew launching from Florida.
Who is Jules Verne?
This video calling app (besides FaceTime) was introduced in 2003 and made video chats practical for many.
What is Skype?
The helpful robot in The Jetsons that inspired the Roomba vacuum.
Who is Rosie?
This common home device (besides Alexa) is an AI assistant that can misunderstand jokes and emotions.
What is Siri?
Luigi Galvani’s 1780s experiment showed that electric current caused this animal's body parts to twitch.
What are frog legs?
This 1957 wearable device, inspired partly by Frankenstein, uses electric pulses to correct abnormal heartbeats
What is the pacemaker?
This early 20th-century silent film, often called the first sci-fi movie, showed a trip to the moon.
What is A Trip to the Moon?
This 1964 AT&T invention had video booths in big cities but was too expensive for most homes.
What is the Picture Phone?
An American center well-known for its robots who can do parkour-like action, open doors, and carry heavy objects.
What is "Boston dynamics"?
Benjamin Franklin and others in the 1700s were fascinated by this force, which later inspired Frankenstein’s experiments
What is electricity?
The fifth manned flight in the United States Apollo program and the first spaceflight to land humans on the Moon, that resembles a fictional vehicle from Verne’s novel.
What is NASA’s Apollo 11 ?
This cartoon family had a video phone in 1962, where Jane chats with her mother on a screen.
Question: Who are the Jetsons?
This early AI computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was advised on by MIT researcher Marvin Minsky
What is HAL 9000?
Answer: Sci-fi often shows these cars as vehicles that become airplanes, but they still aren’t practical for everyday use.
Question: What are flying cars?
These bodies were used to test new experiments without any cost, or moral matters.
Why were dead people's bodies used in the 17th/18th century?
Answer: Rocket scientists in the 20th century were inspired to work on space travel thanks to this author (wrote The First Men in the Moon)
Question: Who was HG Wells ?
The first video call happened in 1964 in these cities.
Why were NY and DC know for in 1964?
This robotics company, founded in the 1990s, introduced the Roomba in 2002 and cited Rosie as an inspiration.
Question: What is iRobot?
Answer: An autonomous vacuum cleaner by iRobot.
Question: What is the "Roomba"?
Shee wrote Frankenstein and was the wife of Percy Shelley, the British poet.
Who was Mary Shelley?
Answer: The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of this first Earth satellite kicked off the space race, followed three months later by U.S. Explorer 1
Question: What is Sputnik 1?
Answer: The video phone needed these three technologies to finally become common in the 2000s
Question: What are the internet, computers (with cameras,) and software?
Answer: Sci-fi struggles to show machines fully understanding human humor and emotion, as illustrated by this movie.
Question: What is Star Trek?
Answer: A self-driving car in the US.
Question: What is Waymo?