7 Predicted Events That Actually Came True

4) Online Shopping

In 1967, the Philco-Ford Company released a film entailing some of the incredible technological advancements that could be possible by the year 1999. While computer-inventoried freezers and a waste-free “home energy center” are not quite feasible for us yet, this film did correctly predict online shopping and online bill payments as a routine part of the future. You can watch the video right here.

5) Television and Cell Phones

In a Saturday Evening Post article from 1900, John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. made a number of predictions. Among his future forecasts were pneumatic tubes delivering food to homes and elimination of rarely-used letters from the alphabet. But, Watkins did get it right when he predicted that “wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world,” and the immediate release of world news and photographs similar to the news sites we visit online everyday.

6) Lincoln’s Assassination

After his death, it was revealed that Abraham Lincoln had a vision of his assassination in a dream less than 2 weeks before that infamous night at Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln recalled to his wife and others present that in the dream he watched throngs of mourners and asked someone what had happened, only to be told that the president had been assassinated. This premonition was published after his death by a witness to the story, Ward Hill Lamon, in the book, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865.

7) iPad

Arthur C. Clarke wrote into the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey all kinds of futuristic inventions. While many of Clarke’s imagined technologies from the 1968 film have yet to be invented, 2001 does feature a flat tablet on which the astronauts can watch broadcasts and receive information, the Newspad. Sadly, Clarke passed away 2 years before the iPad was released. See it in action in the clip below.

While they made not have been Nostradamus’ Prophecies, these predicted events and inventions did come true. It’s amazing that these speculations and predictions turned out to actually be true. It makes you wonder how many other historical events were predicted before they happened!

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