Discover Your Next Profitable Business Idea
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I heard about a website called Technovelgy via Steph Smith on a recent episode of the My First Million podcast 🎙️…
Tagline of the site…
Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that’s tech-novel-gee!) – over 3,800 are available.
Steph explains that Packy McCormick then…
… took this very outdated HTML site that’s hard to navigate, and he put it into this database… so it basically takes all the ideas – not just the books but the ideas within these sci-fi novels – and says “does it exist today?”
And so you have this Google Sheet with 3,500+ ideas from sci-fi novels going back to 1634 🤯
Some of those ideas have since become reality.
📝 Packy writes…
Jonathan Swift foresaw 3D modeling, search engines, biofuels, and even floating rocks in Gulliver’s Travels, way back in 1726?
… Ephraim Chambers wrote about humanoid robots nearly 300 years ago in 1727’s Cyclopaedia?
… When Jeff Bezos walked through the logic behind selling books online in this legendary 1997 interview, he looked insanely prescient. But H.G. Wells imagined e-commerce 98 years earlier in When the Sleeper Wakes (and remote work, handheld video players, a proto-internet, and more).
In other words, the ideas found in sci-fi novels are often way ahead of their time 😵💫
Browse through the database – aka The Sci-Fi Idea Bank – and you might find an idea from 100 years ago that could be feasible with modern technology.
💰 As Packy puts it…
If history is a guide, there are billion-dollar-startups hiding all over the Sci-Fi Idea Bank.
Written by Fardeen Khan- Reviewed and edited by Niall Doherty
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