Science fact is stranger than science fiction.

And that’s what’s the most awesome thing about Science.

You can never predict how it’s going to change in the future, and it’s always better than anybody’s wildest imaginations. Isn’t that why movies about the future made in the past seem very cheesy in the present?

There are countless examples of the real thing being stranger, mystical, more interesting, and just plain unbelievable than science fiction – an imitation of what’s really to come. So I’m going to list out three:

1. The personal computer is an innovation that nobody could have foreseen. Imitations of a computer-laden future are only mediocre in the face of the ubiquity of these devices today. We have phones, tablets, laptops and desktops that are at least ten times more powerful than the computer that got the first human to the Moon.

2. The world wide web – the ultimate interconnected network – is something nobody could have dared to imagine before it was invented. The internet has truly made the world a smaller, more connected place – more so than any other human invention.

3. Quantum mechanics is what came after physicists thought they’d discovered almost all of basic physics. The microworld holds much more surprise than what meets the eye. Quantum superposition – informally, the existence of a particle in multiple positions simultaneously – and entanglement (the pairing up of outcomes, so that one outcome instantly determines the other, but both are unknown and undetermined before one of the outcomes is determined).

These three fields have led to countless innovations, with much more potential to revolutionise the way we live as we know it. Back in the 1800s, nobody could conceive that we’d be living like we do in the second decade of the twenty-first century – a mere thirty years later.

These thirty years have been beyond imaginable; the next thirty will be revolutionary.

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