https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKVuzUnZBU
https://www.theauris.com/blogs/blog/the-history-of-bluetooth
https://www.tuev-nord.de/en/knowledge/explore/a-brief-history-of-bluetooth/
https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin
Exploring various portals into technology and mythology, science and fiction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway#Algorithmics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule "...for example, the last day of February, April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year."
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1968/april/4 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1973/april/4
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-14 1865 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1912/april/14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidence
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190904-edgar-allan-poes-story-of-cannibalism-that-came-true
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27480/did-edgar-allan-poe-predict-a-shipwreck
Years before the Titanic sank, two mysterious books were published that seemed to predict the disaster https://www.businessinsider.com/titanics-books-predicted-disaster-2018-4
https://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/w-t-stead-the-pall-mall-gazette/how-the-mail-steamer-went-down/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/spring/titanic.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine 1726
https://simonpetherick.com/2017/12/07/jonathan-swifts-word-machine
https://computerhistory.org/blog/gullivers-engine
https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/27/5281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics vs. Free_will
https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-code
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe
https://cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer
Three decades before the 1st MATRIX movie and the 13th Floor, the Moody Blues had a song about the nature of reality and the world control $Y$TEM. A time not that long after when the Jefferson_Airplane was playing at a place called The_Matrix_(club).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fYugXMSYur8
It might not be so funny when you see the 2m tall version.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nGRcbIV8j_c
Teleportation device (They Live - 1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9MtNZ8dzdE This is more like a depiction of a portal or a mini wormhole.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KSvCx-EI8f0
No wonder it's impossible to simulate the entire universe. There is just such a tremendous amount of unknown data and variables.
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-have-mathematically-proven-the-universe-is-not-a-simulation/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780821
While reasonably accurate simulations of other worlds are possible, even a weather modeling supercomputer will have its limitations.
However, it's so much easier to run various semi-accurate simulations of the Earth. While the Earth has a lot of variables, approximate simulations are possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807801.Simulacron_3
http://scguy318.freeshell.org/Daniel%20Galouye%20-%20Simulacron-3.pdf
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7607
Are our heads in the cloud? Science fiction or fact? by Richard Dawkins https://simulation-argument.com/dawkins.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/AWLIAS/comments/ip0jpq/are_our_heads_in_the_cloud_richard_dawkins_on_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi61RfhwYDI&t=18s
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K4E1MvC2bg8 An alarm system can only do so much, but a Rottweiler...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QgD2YWn9E38 Reacher security is even better!
Avatar 3 - Tired And Ass, observations from The Critical Drinker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQghy9ZtY4
Don't F**k with James Cameron and his vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKYH738UihQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szAxzRKfmQ4
The Problem With AVATAR's Pandora that the Films Don't Want to Touch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5L6hLD4KU&t=303s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iV3tzOdMY
https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/moon
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984141376133722469
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship 123m or 403 feet in length.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starship-nasa-saturn-v-sls-moon-rockets-comparison-2019-7
So, instead of something like the Millennium_Falcon, it's more like this.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Millennium_Falcon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(1958 film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051638/mediaviewer/rm3299380738/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051638/mediaviewer/rm3601370626/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon or De la terre à la lune (1865)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon (1901)
https://superepicfailpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Lunar
While there probably won't be a Grand Lunar being, there might be the Elon of Mars, someday.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/german-engineer-predicted-elon-would-conquer-mars-in-1952-novel/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html
Various books, movies and TV productions can sometimes mention a peculiar person, place or thing in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Po23hJ1Q4
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UVTCfGdLYyY
Terminator Genisys - Worst Terminator Movie Ever Made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIn_kj52-P0
https://ktla.com/news/ring-founder-talks-ai-privacy-success
From an AI doorbell camera to eventually an AI doorman (Mr. RING) security guard.
https://nightstalker.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._R.I.N.G.
Kolchak The Night Stalker - Mr. R.I.N.G. (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htg5nWtto2c
Of course the special effects for 1970s TV productions were more basic, but the story is interesting.
https://headhuntershorrorhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker:_Mr._R.I.N.G.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE12MrRing
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621539 Just some TV Sci-Fi in 1975, but what about in the late 2020s?