9 historical predictions that came true

[Magical Realist]

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"More than 60 years before the first cell phone and 90 years prior to the introduction of “wi-fi,” Nikola Tesla, a gifted electrical engineer and former right-hand man of Thomas Edison, told the New York Times, “It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”

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John Brunner predicted the 2010 American president in 1968. In one of the eeriest predilection examples, in John Brunner’s novel Stand on Zanzibar, America in 2010 is run by a President Obomi.

Zadkiel F. Obomi was actually the president of a fictional African country named Beninia, rather than the USA.[1] Since there's only a three-letter resemblance to "Obama", that makes it a somewhat spurious coincidence, since in any year (not just 2010) there will be someone in Africa or elsewhere named "Obomi". Albeit not necessarily a top government administrator of whatever _X_.

But Brunner's novel did supposedly nail a long list of other things: The Weird 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel that Correctly Predicted the Current Day

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[1] Pages 275 - 276 of "Stand on Zanzibar":

Rex Foster-Stern cleared his throat. "Background," he said. "Beninia faces a crisis on the impending retirement of President Zadkiel Obomi. On his demise or vacation of his post two consequences are possible. A civil conflict over the succession is the less likely in view of the exceptionally peaceful course of events there since independence. The probabilities are weighted in favour of its powerful African neighbours attempting to annex its territory. Intervention by a third party may prevent this..."