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The future, as foretold in the past (English)

The future, as foretold in the past How to read it: 1800 The Last Man 1800 title author Mary Shelley |1826 The time machine negative Herbert G. Wells year of publication 1895, color = 1900 1900 age of author at the moment 2150 A.D. Thea Plym e Don Plym impact Basing on speculative fiction captions collected by Jane Hu (http://www.theawl.com/2012/08/a- timeline-of-future-events), the visualization analyses 62 foretold future events. For each event the visualization highlights typology (are they mainly social, scientific, technological, political?), year of the prediction, genre of the book and age of the author, while dividing them into positive, neutral or negative events. In the end, good news: in 802.701 the world will still exist and everything will be more or less ok of publication (if available)- comic comic novel 5 years (y-axis) year the novel was published Invitation to the game Monica Hughes A short history of the future Water W. Wagar Planet of the apes Pierre Boulle 1910 - 1910 genre of the work- typology of event The fun they had Isaac Asimov Fitzpatrick's war Theodore Judson The Night's Dawn Trilogy Peter F. Hamilton Shiva and other stories (x-axys) timeline of future events, (sequence) socialocical technological scientific 1920 year the event is șupposed to happen 1920 Barry Malzberg typology of event Through the gates of the silver key Howard P. Lovecraft e Ernest H. Price Honor Ender's game Brave new world Aldous Huxley |1932 Harrington series David Weber environmental 1930 event explanation 1930 Orson S. Card The Mirrored Heavens David J. Williams 1993 the black president, or the racial shock Monteiro Lobato On wings of song Thomas M. Disch Logan's Run William F. Nolarn e George C. Johnson Expedition: being an account in words and artwork of the 2358 A.D. voyage to Darwin IV Wayne D. Barlowę 1926 1940 1940 - Trojan horse Michael Swanwick He, she and it Marge Piercy Blindsight Peter Watts Kaleidoscope Century John Barnes Strontium Dog Series John Wagner The Mote in God's Eye Larry Niven e Jerry Pournellet Air Sewer, Gas and Electric: the public works trilogy Matt Ruff Geoff Ryman Childhood's end 1950 1950 - It's such a beautiful day Isaac Asimov 1954 Arthur C. Clarke 1951 1953 The Ghost from the Grand Banks Arthur C. Clarke The Outward Urge John Wyndham 1959 The Hunger games trilogy Suzanne Collins The Outward Urge John Wyhdham 1959 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners Robert A! Heinleiḥ Do androids dream of electric sheep? Philip K. Dick Six months, three days Charlie J. Anders Everyone's just sO So special Robert Shearman To say nothing of the dog Connie Willis Doraemon series Hiroshi The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi The escapist 2966 Stuart Moore 1960 1960 - A boy and his dog Harlan Ellison The Moon is a harsh mistress Robert A. Heinlein Fujimoto e Motoo Abiko |1966 1963 The world inside Robert Silverberg 1971 Nova Samuel R. Delan | 1968 1968 The speed of dark Elizabeth Moon Doomsday book Connies Willis Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1967 Moving Mars Gregory D. Bear Revelation space Alastair Reynolds 1970 |1969 |1969 1970 - Galactic North Titan |1971 Alastair Reynolds 1972 John Varley |1979 |1974 1980 1979 1980 - Trinity Nancy Kress 1984 Neuromancer William Gibson |1984 Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks 1985 1985 Lilith's Brood Octavia É. Butler 1987 2312 1987 Kim S. Robinson 1988 1985 1990 1990 |1991 1990 - |1990 |1989 |2011 The Sparrow Mary D. Russel |1996 Otherland Tad Williams 1996 |1992 1993 |1990 Red Mars Kim S. Robinson 1993 1995 |1993 |1997 |1997 2000 – 1996 2000 || 2002 Uglies Scott Westerfeld 2005 |2001 |2000 Blind Faith Ben Elton |2008 12005 2004 | 2006 2004 2008 2010 2007 2010 - 2006 +2011 2012 |2009 2012 2012 ¬ -author 1 author 2 -author 1 author 2 -author 1 author 2! -author 1 author 2 2012 2017 2019 2020 2023 2026 2027 2037 2038 2047 2050 2054 2057 2059 2075 2082 2086 2107 2108 2109 2112 2116 2117 2144 2154 2157 2169 2180 2188 2218 2228 2240 2305 2366 2381 2500 2540 2551 2611 2966 3017 3172 3961 802701 2021 2024 2025 2030 2035 2077 2092 2094 2100 2110 2130 2150 2171 2200 2303 2312 2320 2415 After WW4, resources are scarce. Wheп тen aren't i hunting for food, clean water, and weapons, they're seeking the most valuable resource, of all: women An influenza People finally epidemic threatens to take over Oxford A giant meteorite Aliens arē surveytng hits Eastern Italy. the earth. Siri, a crew This leads to other member aboard the encounters with alien star ships A plague reaches England. People come from America to plunder Europe. Some Europeans escape The Culture contacts Earth for the first time Colonialism is still a thing: Colonists travel in cargo ships that can hold 20,000 Thailand is fighting back environmental damages brought on by climate change: bioengineered mammoths | on treadmills generate power Humans have moved to the outskirts of colonized space. Archaeology is still a thing Humans have colonized over 900' worlds with help from the processes of “Ethnic Streaming." 2012 is the year The USA¡lose theit position that would see the Titanic resurrected from the ocean floor New York is encloșed in a big dome.' Als are governed by the Turing police and Turing-coded laws The flip-side of interstellar travel: Pickman Carter uses "strange means in repelling the Mongol hordes from Australia" Population of Mars attempts to unify, break colonial ties to Earth | After global nuclear war in 2044, earth becomes a socialist utopia The world still exists environ- as world leaders to Japan. ' Extraterrestrial life is detected live on the mental тооп wars are now space ship Theseus, observes and attempts to Switzerland, but eventually to understand the alien die of typhus. vessel intragalactic Humanity gets turned upside down: if dndroids are the ones that don't have feelings, then why do those humans seeking to hunt and kill them seem like the heartless ones? Lady Gaga arrested for civil disobedience after winning Nobel Peace Prize Virtual reality is literalized, as people are able to become fully immersed in an online world cuttert the Net Aliens!!! Population of Earth So many has reached 75 billion aliens! people. To compensate? Thousand-floor skyscrapers Privacy Act of 2037 passes, protecting identity'of copied personae from later users Tutti tengono un blog | su se stessi, tutto il giorno, senza vergogna. Solo i pervertiti fanno le cose in privato Overpopulation being a problem, everyone has to report to their schedule termination at age 21 With robots, humans have never been so uneтployed. Maпу live on welfare support Bounty hunter: In the United States, black and white people are'prohibited to get together. Again After a nuclear war between Атerica and Russia, the hитаns that 16 year olds all get the "pretty" operation: it turns you into a full-lipped babe, but also creates brain remain are only lesions that make you a more obedient citizen Honor Harrington is born sociological Se hai tra i 12 ei 18 aпni, potresti esser scelto per combattere fino alla morte Doraemon (Gadget Cat from the Future) is born on September 3 one of the last jobs left uttowed to survive via -> First landing on Venus ! Ulysse Merou leaves Earth Daniel Weinreb leaves suburban Iowa for New York City, where he attempts "flying," or astral projection. He also has dreams of hecoming a musician Un viaggiatore torna nel passato per convincere JFK a поп andare a Dallas, fallisce First colonial Someone violates the laws You can leave earth by hiding of the time-travel continuum in a giant sperm by bringing a cat back from whale First landings on Mars. (Again? Again!) travel - adventure mating with Oankali (which look like large sea cucumbers) voyage to Mars for outer space the Victorian era technological You no longer need a computer to use the internet, because the internet can be accessed directly through your brain In post-apocalyptic America, humans finally recognize cyborgs as capable of love. Communication involves being able to project oneself into cyberspace Gli Stati Uniti e la Coalizione Euroasiatica (Cina/Russia) cercano di costruire senza successo A suburb in San Francisco becomes the world's first solely teleportation-based community Tommy finds a real book in his attic, one that doesn't have shifting words. Totally weird Scientific expeditions to Saturn are now possible un ascensoreper lo spazio Devrie Konig enters Institute of Biological Норe to endure medical experiments that result in the finding of God А тutant great white shark stalks the sewers of New York City A cure for autism; поw exists Computer brains in bodies are still trying and failing to pass Turing tests Finally, robot cats! Joshua Ali Quare vive in un appartamento su Marte, con il suo portatile attivabile vocalmente. Pид апche cambiare sesso a piacimento Calling Zager and Evans! Babies grow in glass tubes so you ain't got no use for husbands or wives Research'and security teams journey to the star Mote. Once there they'll encounters Moties: sequential hermaphrodites scientific Cats can walk through walls (though it's seen as rude) The Macro Society, who practice macro philosophy, run the earth Political power is split across the galaxy. You can still get a liberal arts degree from Harvard political Demon curator takes over the world, creating a museum with one enormous painting to convey the events of each year of history The Yukon Confederacy controls North America. China is still communist positive neutral пoоvel short tale travel - adventure political

The future, as foretold in the past (English)

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Basing on speculative fiction captions collected here: (http://www.theawl.com/2012/08/a-timeline-of-future-events) by Jane Hu, the visualization analyses 62 foretold future events. Each event is descr...

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