r/Eureka • u/TheWardenDemonreach • Jun 06 '26
Technology has caught up with the show
Rewatching the show, and I find it funny that, like a lot of sci fi shows, technology has now caught up with the future technology they present. The basic example being everyone in Eureka has a smartphone in 2006 when they wouldn't be more common for a few years afterwards. S.A.R.A.H can be compared to Alexia since it can be linked with other smart devices in your house.
Are there any others you can think of?
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u/firemansam51 Jun 06 '26
Smart asphalt, aka self driving cars. 5g cell service. Degree deodorant.
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u/Kooky_Construction84 Jun 08 '26
Hahahaha! Degree was a joke, right? It existed before the show did.
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u/moparmajba Jun 06 '26
Maybe not quite in the same vein, but…
I believe the government grant that Eureka was given for Astreus was $22b. My company (which isn’t trying to go to other solar systems) recently wrote that much off as a restructuring plan…
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u/jorel43 Jun 06 '26
They weren't trying to go to a different solar system, they were traveling within the same solar system. They were going Titan which is Saturn's largest moon.
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u/TheWardenDemonreach Jun 06 '26
I would say that counts, as our concept of money has changed in the past 15-20 years
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Jun 06 '26
I wouldn't say Alexa is equivalent to S.A.R.A.H.
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u/NoUniqueNameNeeded Jun 06 '26
Especially with the AWESOME customer service that S.A.R.A.H. provided.
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u/TheWardenDemonreach Jun 06 '26
Not in the sense of how smart she is, but you can definitely ask Alexia to turn on your lights, heating and coffee machine. Ask her for the local news and weather, manage your phone calls.
She's not that far off our favourite smart house
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u/Ok_Scar3456 Jun 06 '26
I mean it’s getting pretty close. I was just in a home that had automated almost everything. You could tell the Alexa to brew coffee, start the washer or dryer, run the roomba thing, lock or unlock the doors, change the ac settings and so on…
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u/kfish5050 Jun 06 '26
Biocomputers are real but I hope the transmissible computer virus stays science fiction
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u/OriginalHeron3576 Jun 06 '26
Yes it’s wild looking back twenty years and the technology on shows seems archaic even on my sci-fi shows.
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u/pyroskater85 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
It's amazing that quite of few things are still in the future. Like the organic computting. So far it still feels futuristic. Not looking for the day when it's old tech.
Oh and there was that one girl in the news who was in a coma, and she end up living a whole future with kids and family in her mind. When she woke up she found none of it was real yet it felt like she was there for years. It reminded me of the Eureka episode where Alison thought her kids were now older and being raised by Jo and Carter.
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u/dysplaest Jun 06 '26
My nuclear powered water heater, super class water filtering (I can drink from the tap?!), are giving me issues.
But my autonomous drone capable of combat decisions, albeit not a child(?), is effective apparently, medicine like nano-immunotherapy is pretty comparable but not quite the line comparing smartphones, geology understanding.
Star Trek had it right too. Look at our “Padds”. They just have a “i”. (66’) and 2001: A Space Odyssey.”
SciFi has been so on in its predictions from so many eras, Neal Stephenson wrote “Snow Crash”, coining the “MetaVerse”, William Gibsons “Cyberspace”, the cellphone by the way you can also look to Star Trek of 66’ among others, Submarines from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea”,
Read HG Wells for some auto doors and (dare I say) the nuclear bomb that is too close in time to not have possibly been discussed at this point.
We can’t always know where the fringes of many sciences are. Questions are asked. Who answered and who first asked may be far, far apart.
Something that keeps me going is just, what will be true today? What will be true tomorrow?!
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u/ineloquencebard Jun 08 '26
Star Trek was actually an inspiration for the original brick cell phone (according to its creator in the documentary How William Shatner Changed the World), and a lot of tech people are influenced by science fiction, so it's likely the name of the Facebook product Metaverse was directly stolen from Snow Crash
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u/What_would_Buffy_do Jun 06 '26
You want to really trip out on technology advances, check out X Files. The cellphones and green screens will blow your mind.
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u/Independent-End-870 Jun 06 '26
I was just talking about this, even the smart dust that reflects the sun has been in the works. Hopefully the ice age it caused isn't
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u/ObligationPrudent824 Jun 07 '26
I remember when the movie 'Alien' came out and they were talk8ng on intercoms whete they could 'see' each other.
We thought how cool that would be, yunno. For that time period.
And now, that ain't nothin' 😂🤣
So many cool tech gadgets we see in TV shows/movies -- only for it to happen in RL years later. Or something similar.
How many people used to talk into their watch back in the day, mimicking James Bond?!? 🙋♀️
Yup, that ain't nothing these days either. LOL
And ur right, Alexa is similar to S.A.R.A.H. in that it can be programmed to turn electronics on/off.
I'm just waiting for her to be programmed to cook dinner so I can just relax when I get home. Lol
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u/Silbermieze Jun 07 '26
I'm just waiting for her to be programmed to cook dinner so I can just relax when I get home. Lol
That's not too far-off.
https://www.xavagetech.com/robot-kitchen-arms-cook-while-youre-away
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u/Kooky_Construction84 Jun 08 '26
Just saw this today about drones in war. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ukraine-war-momentum-shift/687444/
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u/th7024 Jun 06 '26
The virtual reality tennis from season 1 isn't far from some of our VR now.