I never really got into science fiction as a kid. I wasn’t interested in Star Wars films or Star Trek, however as technology has become more advanced I find  I am more interested in the future possibilities that lie ahead. I don’t know if that has just come with age or the fact that whilst in the depths of the internet it’s easy to stumble across ideas and design concepts.

It is a lot easier these days to communicate your concepts and show them to the world with the click of a button compared to let’s say ten years ago where you had to publish papers and know the right people in order to get your work noticed. Nowadays anyone can create a design concept of science fiction which could well and truly be reality in years ahead.

For example in ‘Space Odyssey’ an American 1968 science fiction film, there are scenes of what looks like the subjects of the film are holding iPads way before Apple had even developed the concept or produced their iPad. Back in 1968 this was such a futuristic concept that was considered so undoable at the time it was science fiction. Now many families own iPads and other similar technology which doesn’t faze us because that is where our world is in technology at the moment.

Dubai has probably one of the fastest growing businesses and are constantly developing designs that were once consider science fiction but now just amazing architectural work! For instance the underwater hotel in Dubai breaks all boundaries and presents such an advanced hotel experience to the public. The work is not finished, the design has been made and construction is currently being undertaken.

If you told your Grandparents, or even your parents that you could go and spend your holiday sleeping under the ocean surface, they would laugh at you because it ‘wasn’t possible’…well guess what, more and more is becoming possible everyday! Even the development of a hotel in space is under way! Who knows what we will be achieving within the next ten years!

Space Odyssey vs. Ipad