{"id":1442815,"date":"2021-06-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442815"},"modified":"2021-05-29T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T18:36:26","slug":"8-sci-fi-books-that-predicted-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/8-sci-fi-books-that-predicted-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Sci-Fi Books That Predicted the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/3420scifipredicttechMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen tomorrow, much less 100 years from now. Technologically speaking, I&#8217;m pretty sure the future will have new iPhones, but that&#8217;s really the only claim I feel confident making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, no one&#8217;s asking me to come up with plausible futuristic technology. No one was really asking Ray Bradbury to do that, either, but that didn&#8217;t stop him from predicting earbuds, flat-screen TVs, iPads, and the horrors of state-based censorship in <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he&#8217;s not the only one who saw stuff coming. Science-fiction writers have been doing this for hundreds of years, and sometimes their predictions are (frighteningly) spot-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen tomorrow, much less 100 years from now. Technologically speaking, I&#8217;m pretty sure the future will have new iPhones, but that&#8217;s really the only claim I feel confident making.   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,25017,16513,24812,3883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442815"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442827,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442815\/revisions\/1442827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}