9 books that predicted the future with scary accuracy

This memo will make you rethink the relationship between "stories" and reality. The crazy imagination of one generation becomes the mundane reality of another. Here are 9 SciFi novels that predicted the future...

Giphantie, a 1761 novel, predicted photography. It talked about pictures "made in the twinkle of an eye" that fixed "transient images" in one place. The first photo was taken in 1826...

Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish wrote the The Blazing-World in 1666. It described mysterious ships that could operate from the depths of the ocean. Experiments over the next few centuries would finally lead to the invention of Submarines...

Mizora, published in 1880, describes an all-female society. It's been called the first "feminist technological Utopia." It has the first literary reference to synthetic, lab-grown meat...today, Beyond Meat has a market cap of over a billion dollars.

John Jacob Astor IV was a man of mythic proportions. He was a real estate mogul who built the world's most luxurious hotel in NYC. He fought wars, became one of the world's richest men, and predicted video calls in his novel "A Journey in Other Worlds." He sank with the Titanic..

H.G. Wells predicted the Atom Bomb in his 1914 novel The World Set Free. The real life physicist Leó Szilárd read this book and filed a patent on neutron chain reactions - a process crucial to the Atom Bomb - immediately after...

Men Like Gods continued H.G. Well's unprecedented prophetic run. This novel came out in 1923, and predicted email, voice mails, and other aspects of modern communication we take for granted today...

Apple introduced its AR glasses this year. The 1935 scifi novel Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Weinbaum predicted this, featuring smart glasses which projected virtual reality in the space around you.

Ray Bradbury's short shorty The Pedestrian featured self-driving cars. It was published in 1951. 70 years later, thanks to Tesla and advanced computing, we are finally on the verge of experiencing fully automated driving...

Personalized ads run the internet. They were first predicted in Philip K. Dick's classic 1956 novella, The Minority Report...