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The Tech Imaginarium

John Helmer

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Education

Frequency: 1 episode/3d. Total Eps: 2

How Science Fiction Made the Modern World. Since its birth a century ago, this fascinating genre has been turning science fact into fictions that have captured the imagination of millions. John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach explore how these stories have, in turn, inspired developments in technology that shape all our lives today.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Science Fiction
27/05/2026
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TI01 Amazing Stories is 100!

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, May 25, 2026 • Duration 01:09:23

A hundred years ago this spring, a magazine called Amazing Stories hit the newsstands and — almost by accident — gave a name and a shape to the genre we now call science fiction. Its publisher, Hugo Gernsback, was an immigrant electrical engineer, visionary and relentless self-promoter. He wanted his magazine to delight and enthrall – but also to educate.

In this opening episode of The Tech Imaginarium, John and Ezri go back to 1926 to ask why this peculiar pulp magazine matters — and why its mix of techno-optimism, prophetic vision and dystopic warnings still echoes through the way we talk about technology today.

In this episode:

Hugo Gernsback: Luxembourg-born inventor, publisher of Amazing Stories, and author of stories under at least seven anagrams of his own name
The strange scientific weather of 1926 — electrification, mustard gas, Einstein, Schrödinger and Hubble — and why it primed the public for "scientifiction"
The first issue's contributors: Wells, Verne and Poe in one corner; George Allan England, G. Peyton Wertenbaker and Austin Hall in the other
Robert Goddard, H.G. Wells and the through-line from pulp magazines to the Apollo Moon launches
Why Gernsback's reputation was contraversial — paying writers poorly, exaggerating circulation, etc.
The tropes Amazing Stories planted that we're still living with

Links and resources:

Website: learninghackpodcast.com
Instagram: @tech.imaginarium
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting

Music by Nick Dwyer and Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.

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