10 fantasy things come true

Many phenomena used to be a dream in the past but now become reality like atomic bombs, Internet .

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1. Atomic bomb

In the book 'Liberation of the World' - a book born before the first 30-year atomic bomb test, author HGWells has a series of descriptions of the atomic bomb.

Atomic bombs appear 30 years after the first mention.

Well's atomic bombs don't have as much destructive power as nuclear explosives, except that they can explode continuously for several days. He also predicted that such bombings would cause many health problems and the area where atomic bomb explosions would be abandoned.

2. Internet

In the science fiction story 'From the London Times of 1904,' Mark Twain describes an Internet-like telecommunications network that we know today.

In 1898, Mark Twain mentioned the same telecom network as the Internet

In his story, Mark Twain describes: 'A newly developed unlimited unlimited phone. Everything is displayed for everyone, so everyone can comment '.

It is worth mentioning that this story was written in 1898.

3. Set foot on the Moon

In the book 'From the Earth to the Moon' , Jules Verne describes his first voyage to the Moon in December, from a Florida state base. The crew consists of 3 people, sitting in a large spacecraft compartment made of aluminum. After exploring the suite on the Moon, the astronauts landed in the Pacific and were picked up by a US Navy ship.

Verne imagined quite accurately about the expedition to the Moon.

Verne predicts a lot of details on the trip. Even the name of Verne's spacecraft is quite similar to the name of the spacecraft NASA used for this mission (Columbiad and Columbia).

Verne also guessed the weightless phenomenon when he reached the Moon.

And what's important is that Verne wrote this story from 1865, more than 100 years after the first trip to Sister Hang was done.

4. Radar

While most people did not appreciate the "Ralph 124C 41+" novel written by Hugo Gernsback in 1911, they were still surprised that the book predicted many of the achievements we were using as control. Remote of television, recorder, solar power and especially the appearance of radar.

Radar model in Hugo Gernsback's novel

In the novel, he describes: 'a polarized oscillating wave, if projected directly into a metal object, can be reflected in the same way a light reflected from the bright surface .'

The novel author even drew a device quite similar to radar. 24 years after Ralph's novel was published, the US Navy introduced its radar system.

5. Online newspaper

In the novel '2001: A Space Odyssey' , by Arthur C. Clarke describes: 'In a few milliseconds, he can see the titles of all the newspapers he likes . Articles. automatically updated every hour ' . He also said that information will be updated from news satellites.

Reading the titles of newspapers in the world is no longer fiction

6. Tank

Once again, HGWells became a genius prophet when predicting war machines, including tanks - which he called "terrestrial armored vehicles".

Tank in HG Wells's story.

The novel was published in 1903, while the first tank was born in 1916.

7. Video games

The first video game appeared in 1958 but Arthur C. Clarke described it two years earlier. In the novel 'City and the Stars' , Clarke mentioned a city called Diaspar - a city entirely controlled by computers. And the most popular hobby in this city is real-interactive virtual games.

The boundary between virtual and real in these games is almost erased

'You don't have to play a passive observer. You get directly involved and can act on your own . When the dream is not over, you can't tell what is a dream, it's real , "Clarke wrote.

8. Video chat

In 1911, Hugo Gernsback came up with the idea of 'photo telephony' - an idea that was first realized by AT&T in 1964 and is now being serviced by Skype and computers with cameras.

Hugo Gernbacks described the video chat technology before it appeared 53 years

In the novel 'Ralph 124C 41+ ', Gernsback writes about video chat technology that we later used extensively. Gernsback's Telephot device is a wall-mounted monitor that allows you to connect to others through a few key presses.

9. Credit card

In the novel 'Looking Behind' written in 1888, Edward Bellamy describes that people can buy things with a credit card if they know the seller.

Credit cards were described by Edward Bellamy from the 1888s.

This novel even mentions how to use this credit card.

10. Diving equipment

The diving device Jules Verne described in '20,000 miles under the sea 'is quite similar to the diving equipment we currently use.

The dive is mentioned for the first time in the book "Twenty thousand miles under the sea".

Verne's diving system is based on the design of Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze, which is stocked with enough air to deliver to divers within 7-8 minutes. Verne's device consists of several thick iron storage tanks, air-filled pressure of 50 Af inside and worn behind the diver's back. '