Will there be a new kind of taxicab in the future?
The literary genre of science fiction has a good track record for predicting the future. H.G. Wells, for example, described atomic bombs in his 1914 book, “The World Set Free.” And in the 1865 novel, “From the Earth to the Moon,” Jules Verne wrote about manned space flight; he also mentioned that the aluminum rocket carrying the three-man crew required a speed of 12,000 yards per second to launch. In reality, the actual launch speed of the first aluminum rocket carrying a three-man crew in 1969 was 11,424 yards per second — not too far off, considering Verne penned his book 104 years earlier [source: Discover].
