Interesting fact: Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted future.

Interesting fact: Jules Verne's wrote a novel (Paris in the Twentieth Century) in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.