20 sci-fi tropes, judged from psychics to AI uprisings on how close they are to real

What happened: Cracked ranked 20 sci-fi tropes by how close each is to coming true, covering topics from psychics and space pirates to robots and AI uprisings. Why it matters: The ranking places speculative concepts like AI uprisings alongside other tropes on a scale of real-world proximity, framing them as subjects for comparison rather than prediction.

Cracked ranked 20 sci-fi tropes by how close each is to coming true, covering topics from psychics and space pirates to robots and AI uprisings.

The ranking places speculative concepts like AI uprisings alongside other tropes on a scale of real-world proximity, framing them as subjects for comparison rather than prediction.