How Accurate is science fiction to predict future?
Science fiction has played a much larger role in inspiring youngsters to help shape the future than in being an accurate predictor of the future. Although examples have been given for how well Jules Verne’s story matched Apollo (3 people launched from a peninsula), also consider how much he missed: It was a rocket, not a cannon, and best of all, when we did it for real the whole world could watch it as one united people on their television sets. That was an awesome factor in and of itself. A real benefit for the good of all humanity. The world was one on that day.
