Space Travel
Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865) depicted a moon mission with a launch from Florida and detailed calculations, which came true with NASA’s Apollo missions in 1969.
Credit Cards
Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) introduced the concept of a cashless society using credit cards, a reality reflected in the first widely accepted credit card in 1950.
Video Calls
Jules Verne imagined video calling in The Year 2889 (1889), which became a reality with technologies like AT&T’s Picturephone in 1964, and later Skype and Zoom.
Artificial Intelligence
Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) depicted an intelligent computer, a vision realized by today’s AI systems like Siri and Alexa.
The Internet
William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) predicted cyberspace and hacking, concepts that took shape with the advent of the internet in the 1990s.
Drones and Autonomous Vehicles
Various science fiction works depicted flying cars and autonomous vehicles, now coming closer to reality with advancements in drone technology and self-driving cars.
