Sometimes it is hard to imagine that the predictions of the future from modern science fiction books and movies could come true. However, when reading this literature, we soon realize that many authors have at least partially guessed what the world will look like when they are gone. In this article, you can read 12 exciting book predictions that have come true.
12 Exciting Book Predictions That Came True:
Cryonics
The first to suggest that cryonics (body preservation devices) would one day exist was Neil R. Jones in 1931. In the short story The Jameson Satellite, the protagonist Jameson wants his body preserved by freezing it. In 1947, the concept was popularized by Robert Ettinger with the utopian story The Penultimate Trump.
Meat from the lab
Artificially grown meat in a laboratory is first mentioned in the science fiction Two Planets, written in 1897 by Kurd Lasswitz. In the book, synthetic meat is one of the foods introduced into Earthlings' lives by the Martians.
Landing on the moon
In 1865, the French writer Jules Verne wrote the book A Trip to the Moon, where he describes how a large space rocket lands on the moon. More than a century later, Apollo 11, named after the rocket in Verne's book, actually landed on the moon.
The sinking of the Titanic
In 1898, Morgan Robertson published The Wreck of the Titan, OR, Futility - the story of an unsinkable ship that crashes into a glacier. 14 years later, this is exactly what happened to the Titanic.
A nuclear bomb
In The World Set Free, HG Wells predicted that a uranium shell of infinite power would destroy a large number of lives in the future. 31 years after the book was published, a nuclear bomb hit Hiroshima.
The Cold War
Robert Heinlein's 1941 short story describes how the United States produces nuclear weapons to become the world's leading superpower. Very soon these predictions came true in the form of the Cold War.
Water bed
The author of the short story mentioned above also foresaw the invention of the water bed. He described this invention in detail in the book Stranger in Strange Land.
Credit cards
In Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopia Looking Backward, the appearance and use of credit cards is described in detail. These came into force only in the 1950s.
2 moons of Mars
In 1726, Jonathan Swift claimed that Mars had two moons in Gulliver's Travels. After 151 years, this hypothesis was confirmed.
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Headphones for music
In the famous book Fahrenheit 45, Ray Bradbury describes devices that closely resemble today's music headphones.
Internet
From the London Times of 1904 is an 1898 book by Mark Twain that describes the device teleelectroscope, a telephone of unlimited dimensions, very similar to today's Internet.
Antidepressants
In Huxley's famous book Brave New World, the inhabitants take the drug "soma" every day, which acts as an antidepressant - it reduces anxiety and sadness, but at the same time drowns out all happy feelings.
