H.G. Wells anticipated the tank. The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” anticipated commercial space flight (albeit more than 16 years earlier than it will actually happen, since the first one is supposed to take off in 2017). To what extent did science fiction writers help us envision and strive for the technology we have today? To what extent did they have the foresight to understand how it would develop?
10 Sci-Fi Writers Who Successfully Predicted Transport Technology (Infographic)
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