1898: Martians launch massive invasion of Earth, starting with England; nearly take over but are decimated by exposure to terrestrial infections. H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds
1963: Last survivors of a nuclear war die out in Australia. On the Beach (1957) Nevil Shute
1970: Robots and suspended animation coming into common use. The Door into Summer (1956) Robert Heinlein
1982: Sale of robots to the public is just beginning. Robbie (1939) Isaac Asimov
1984: World in constant war, Big Brother is Watching You (1948) 1984, Orwell.
1991: Uprising of the sentient ape underclass. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
1996: Eugenics War ends with 37,000,000 dead. Star Trek (1967)
1997: The President's plane crashes in the New York prison colony. Escape From New York (1981)
1997: Jupiter 2 interstellar spaceship is launched. Lost in Space (1965)
1999: Attempted coup by the nuclear weapons base on the moon. The Long Watch (1949) Robert Heinlein
1999: Big explosion at the lunar nuclear waste site sends the moon out of Earth orbit. Space: 1999 (1975)
2000: Competitive cross-country racing allows pedestrian killing. Death Race 2000 (1975)
2000: The US is turned into a socialist utopia (Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, 1888).
2001: Mission to Jupiter encounters alien life-form. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2007: Earth launches its first interstellar attack against the Taurans. The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman
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Add your own!
I leave it to Alan Moore to weave all of that together. ;)
2013: Entire northern polar cap gone. (2008) Al Gore
Get ready bitches!
Wow, people used to be really bad at predicting the future. :lol:
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 26, 2011, 12:57:28 PM
2013: Entire northern polar cap gone. (2008) Al Gore
Get ready bitches!
It isn't 2013 yet. ;)
1990: Most of the world's population is wiped out by super virus Captain Trips. The Stand by Stephen King (1990 re-release).
1995 - Soviet-Chinese border war slowly turns into WWIII
(Twilight 2000 RPG)
Here's abunch of them:
http://www.manolith.com/2009/07/30/pending-future-technologies/
Quote from: DGuller on August 26, 2011, 12:59:12 PM
Wow, people used to be really bad at predicting the future. :lol:
One day we'll find a way to predict it correctly. ;)
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2011, 01:26:10 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 26, 2011, 12:59:12 PM
Wow, people used to be really bad at predicting the future. :lol:
One day we'll find a way to predict it correctly. ;)
You have to name a year for the prediction to count. :)
I love me some retro-futurism, though contemporary futurism annoys me for some reason.
We read that Bellamy book in my Comparative Economic Systems class in college. Pretty fascinating book, even though it sounded much more like a dystopia than utopia.
I liked Pournelle's Codominium. The US and USSR form an alliance in '90 and suppress everybody else. Sounds dreamy. :wub:
2010....Mission to Jupiter, as the Soviets and USA on verge of war, leads to discovery of more monoliths on Io, and, the creation of a new sun. (Arthur c. Clarke, 2010)
August 29, 1997: Skynet becomes self-aware and initiates nuclear war :hug:
new year's eve, 1999
QuoteHOST: So Dan, are you looking forward to the New Year?
DAN: Not really. I mean what's the point? Nothing changes New Years day. The economy sucks, gas is over three bucks a gallon, fifth grade kids are shooting each other at recess... the whole thing sucks, right? So what the hell are we celebrating?
strange days (1995)
one of the only good parts in the film, and only because of its comedic value :P
Quote from: LaCroix on August 27, 2011, 02:44:15 AM
new year's eve, 1999
QuoteHOST: So Dan, are you looking forward to the New Year?
DAN: Not really. I mean what's the point? Nothing changes New Years day. The economy sucks, gas is over three bucks a gallon, fifth grade kids are shooting each other at recess... the whole thing sucks, right? So what the hell are we celebrating?
strange days (1995)
one of the only good parts in the film, and only because of its comedic value :P
Bondage fake-rape scene is better.
:homestar:
Quote from: grumbler on August 26, 2011, 01:25:04 PM
Here's abunch of them:
http://www.manolith.com/2009/07/30/pending-future-technologies/
We got the Answer Machine. It's called Google or Wikipedia. :P