The laser, artificial satellites or Netflix: four incredible tech predictions that became reality
Hi-Tech Nilgun Salim
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Some scientists and SF authors predicted the future with this incredible precision making most people to ask themselves: were they time travelers from the future?
Here are five clear examples of prophecies related to the incredible evolution of technology
The laser
In 1914, SF novel “The Liberated World” written by H.G. Wells was launched.
In the book, the author talks about a series of nuclear weapons which almost triggered the disappearance of our civilization.
Trinity, the detonation of the world’s first real nuclear bomb occurred on July 16th, 1945, more than 30 years after Wells’ book was released.
If this vision seems extraordinary to you, we should mention Wells was writing about lasers in 1898 in his book “The War of the Worlds”.
He was talking about Heat-Ray, alien weapons with energy waves able to melt flesh or incinerate buildings.
Fossil fuels and global warming
In 1912, the newspaper “Rodney and Otamatea Times” from New Zealand wrote about the global warming and the devastating effects of the process of burning fossil fuels.
The author said burning coal will overheat the atmosphere, which is the planet’s blanket.
The greenhouse effect was to be discovered only in 1924 by French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier.
Artificial satellites
In 1945, Artur C. Clarke, the famous SF author, was a radar technician in the Royal Air Force.
Back then, he suggested the launch of a satellite communication system.
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union into the orbit in 1957.
Netflix and YouTube
In 1994, Bill Gates, predicted the appearance of companies like Facebook or Netflix.
In an interview with Playboy magazine, Gates said that PCs, which were currently used for document creation and editing, will become tools for accessing and sharing electronic media on the Internet.
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