Predicting the future?
I'm expanding my guest editorial from the April issue of Analog. It's called "Yay! The Future... Oh, Damn." and talks about science fiction's predictive powers, both the successes and the failures. I'm looking for specific examples, both positive and negative. For instance, in Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (1994), a 747 is purposely crashed into the Capitol as a weapon. On the other hand, in Back to the Future II (1989), Marty travels to the future, to 2015, when flying cars are common and Jaws 19 is in the movie theatres. Do you have any favorite predictions that have, or haven't, come true?