The future might already be written. Cheer, shudder, or eye-roll in disgust, but history shows that what awaits us is often spelled out in the pages of science fiction. The genre's predictive track record stretches thousands of years. Here's a glimpse of what sci-fi writers of the past got right:
1) Defibrillators (Frankenstein) 2) Space Stations (The Brick Moon) 3) Machine Learning (Erewhon) 4) Lab-grown Meat (Mizora) 5) Long-term Heat Storage (Sultana's Dream) 6) TASERs (Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle) 7) Portable Audio (Fahrenheit 451)
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Media: Star Trek (1967) CBS, Frankenstein (1931) Universal Pictures, Mosa Meat, Department of Defense, NASA, RosCosmos, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, Prelinger Archives, Pixabay, Pexels
