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The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...
Tui bei tu (traditional Chinese: 推背圖; simplified Chinese: 推背图; pinyin: tuī bèi tú) is a Chinese prophecy book from the 7th-century Tang dynasty.The book is known for predicting the future of China, and is written by Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang (袁天罡), and has been compared to the works of famous western prophet Nostradamus. [1]
An aerial battle employing dirigibles with cannons, as depicted in En L'An 2000, a series of postcards printed between 1899 and 1910. The first flying experimental planes were between 1886 and 1910. This is a list of fictional stories that, when composed, were set in the future, but the future they predicted is now present or past.
Fortune telling is the unproven spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life. [1] The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term ...
^SPX data by YCharts. Technically, the Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF doesn't own only small-cap value stocks. The median market cap of the 835 stocks in the ETF's portfolio is $7.5 billion, well ...
Future History (Heinlein) Future History. (Heinlein) Universe was a 1941 story from Heinlein's Future History series (shown here in the 1951 Dell edition). The Future History is a series of stories created by Robert A. Heinlein. It describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century.
Image source: Getty Images. Archer Aviation's leading bullet points in its earnings news release tell a compelling story. Its factory is set for completion in the coming weeks, with the aim to be ...
Magazine. Publication date. 6 July 2005 [1] " What's Expected of Us " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published on 6 July 2005 by Nature. [2] The story was also included in the 2006 anthology Year's Best SF 11 and in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. [3][4][5]