An aerial battle employing dirigibles with cannons, as depicted in En L'An 2000, a series of postcards printed between 1899 and 1910. The first flying experimental planes were between 1886 and 1910.
This is a list of fictional stories that, when composed, were set in the future, but the future they predicted is now present or past. The list excludes works that were alternate histories, which were composed after the dates they depict, alternative futures, as depicted in time travel fiction, as well as any works that make no predictions of the future, such as those focusing solely on the future lives of specific fictional characters, or works which, despite their claimed dates, are contemporary in all but name. Entries referencing the current year may be added if their month and day were not specified or have already occurred.
This episode accurately predicted that the Y2K bug would not turn off "a single lightbulb." The Millennium Gate, a self-contained biosphere, was completed in 2012.
Scientists are sent back in time to try to stop the spread of a virus. Per the opening titles in the film, "Five billion people died in 1996 and 1997, almost the entire population of the world. Only about 1 percent of us survived."[1][2][3]
Written at a time when trade unions in the United Kingdom had reached a peak of power prior to the union-breaking policies of Margaret Thatcher, it predicts a 1985 in which the UK is completely in thrall to unions, and unions exist for every conceivable profession.
A bureaucratic dictatorship has ruled the UK since it went bankrupt in 1983. Magna Carta, the Constitution and habeas corpus were "thrown out." There was a failed coup to overthrow the regime in 1986. The UK's currency is the Anglodollar. The government is attempting to curb population. The House of Commons has only 400 MPs and only 20% of the population voted in the last general election. The House of Lords was abolished and converted into a dining club. By this time, the UK has a king. There were major riots in 1985 as a result of 18,000 houses being demolished and ghettos being established in their place. The Isle of Man declared independence prior to 1990. At this time, the United States had its own equivalent of the National Health Service. The series correctly predicted that parliamentary speeches would be televised by 1990.
Similar to Escape From New York, depicts a portion of New York sealed off from the rest of the city and handed over to street gangs. The sequel Escape from the Bronx is set sometime after this and was released in 1983.
Depicts a turn of the 21st century in which space travel is routine, China is a monarchy, the Moon has been colonized and artificial intelligence has reached superhuman levels. HAL 9000 is activated in 1992 (film) or 1997 (novelization). Predicted digital newspapers/the newspad and the population exceeding six billion.[6][7][8][9]
Sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey film. The United States is about to go to war with a still-extant Soviet Union. The film correctly predicted that the 2008 Summer Olympics would be held in Beijing.[10]
Post-apocalyptic film in which nuclear war and radiation have rendered the populace infertile. Survivors head to New York City to rescue the last allegedly fertile woman on Earth.[12] Inspired by Escape From New York.
Accurately predicts New York City will be the epicenter of a pandemic in the year 2020. It additionally predicts Ellis Island becoming a plague colony, Florida becoming an independent state, Detroit being ruled by Sharia law, and unlicensed children becoming illegal.[13]
In 2007, the spaceship Tsien was built. In the 2020s, a major earthquake occurs in California and two nuclear bombings occur in a war. Predicted the end of apartheid in South Africa (albeit in the early 21st century instead of 1994) followed by a mass exodus of Afrikaners and capital flight.[14]
The second major part of the story occurs in 2014–15 where society has become a dystopia ruled by the Friend Democratic Party. The live-action film series sets some of its events in 2015.
A reactor is invented that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the Absolute. This leads to an outburst of religious and nationalist fervor, causing the greatest, most global war in history. Some of the more prominent political changes the war causes include expulsion of the Russian army to Africa (via Europe) by the Chinese invasion, the conquest of East Asia by Japan that cuts the Chinese conquests in Russia and Europe down to the limits of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Japanese conquest of North America. The latter happened because the United States were exhausted by a bloody civil war between the supporters and opponents of the Prohibition.
In the 1980s, there was a crewed mission to Saturn. In the 1990s, the US National Sea Frontier Project established a giant marine laboratory on the ocean floor. By this time, flying cars were common. Climate control resulted in the Arctic being defrosted. Construction workers were equipped with anti-gravity pulse rays to move heavy objects. Banks had bulletproof glass cages which could be erected to prevent robbers from escaping. Lampposts were equipped with automatic fire sensors which alerted the fire department, which used hovercraft that shot out fireproof foam. Ships had flotation collars which could keep them adrift in the event of an emergency. An instant fertilizer existed which allowed crops to grow in seconds.
Set in a dystopian, post-WWIII Neo-Tokyo in the midst of civil unrest and government corruption.[12]
Made into a film and video game in 1988. Correctly predicted that the 2020 Summer Olympics would have been held in Tokyo. Additionally, graffiti in the film references the 2020 Olympics, saying "Just cancel it." Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the quote began to be used online in reference to the potentially hazardous Olympic gathering, both as a serious wish and as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek reference.
Space colonisation is routine and a Temporal Bureau safeguards the human race through time travel. Complete sexual reassignment is possible, even allowing fertility.
The Brotherhood of Freedom, an association of anarchists, socialists and nihilists, established a Pax Aeronautica over Earth using aircraft. Correctly predicted the first heavier-than-air flight would occur in late 1903.
In 2000, female suffrage has been achieved throughout the British Empire, which has become an Imperial Federation. Ireland has become an independent state. As a result of Emperor Albert's refusal to marry the daughter of the President of the United States, war breaks out between the Federated British Empire and the United States. The Empire wins the war and the defeated US is reabsorbed into the Empire. Correctly predicts the spread of female suffrage and Ireland becoming a sovereign state.
In 1999, Russia and China are at war for control of Eastern Siberia and North Korea invades the Demilitarized Zone. Russia launches a nuclear strike at the United States, which retaliates, and World War III begins.
In 1959, a handgun called a grenade pistol was invented. Prior to 1960, the first artificial satellite Albertus, named after Albert Einstein, was launched by the United States. In 1960, the Soviet Union collapsed due to internal causes precipitated by the launching of Albertus. An "almost Carthaginian peace" was imposed on Argentina after it dropped an atomic bomb on London. By 1970, the United States held unrivaled power among the other nations of the world to the point that there was little possibility of another country successfully attacking or sabotaging the US.
By 2003, Communism has emerged as the worldwide form of government. Humanity is engaged in numerous gigantic engineering projects such as the irrigation of the Sahara, the construction of a hydro-energetic plant over the Strait of Gibraltar, climate control and the thawing of the Antarctic and the Arctic.
Initially set in a post-apocalyptic United States following a nuclear war which broke out on October 9, 1986. The war wiped out most of humanity and destroyed the majority of plants and animals. The radiation caused dogs to significantly grow in size which led to them being used as steeds.[18]
In 2015, hoverboards, self-lacing Nike shoes and flying cars are commonplace. The Jaws film franchise has reached its (fictional) 19th installment, directed by Max Spielberg, and pop culture from the 1980s is considered 'retro', as with Café 80s. The Chicago Cubs defeat a fictional Miami Gators team for the 2015 World Series (in reality, the Cubs would be eliminated in the League Championship Series, but would come back to win the series the next year). October 21, 2015, the "future" date arrived as in the film, was celebrated as "Back to the Future Day".[19][20]
Predicts a second American Civil War in 2017 with martial law declared in all major cities in the nation except for one.[21] Computer technology that reads people's thoughts, retinal scans that serve as a biometric passport.[22] The comic that it was based on takes place in an alternate version of present-day Earth.
Depicts a war between the United States and China, with battles taking place on Wake Island. Several Middle Eastern states have joined to form a superstate known as the "Middle Eastern Coalition".
Depicts an invasion of the United Kingdom by Germany. Set a short but undetermined amount of time after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), but narrated by a veteran 50 years afterwards. Established the invasion literature genre and predicted a Civil War in an independent Ireland.
Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in a future in which interstellar travel has been achieved and synthetic humans are employed as slave labor. A Voight-Kampff machine is used as a tool to determine whether the subject is a human or not.[12] Los Angeles is also portrayed as heavily polluted.[24]Roy Batty's incept date is listed as 2016. The 1997 video game also takes place in November 2019, the same as the film.
By 1996, the Cold War has intensified and nuclear tensions loom. At this time, both the United States and the Soviet Union have bases on the Moon and Mars.
Predicts Latin America unifying into a single superstate called the "Federation of the Americas" and launching an invasion of the United States with the goal of occupying and annexing it. Also kinetic weapons in space are a reality by 2017.
Depicts a coup d'état in Russia and a civil war following a coup d'état in a republican Saudi Arabia that had abolished the monarchy sometime prior to 2011. The United States intervenes in the war to stop the coupists, who then detonate a nuclear bomb during a battle with the US Marines, killing tens of thousands of US servicemen.[32]
The game is set during the Black Ops story arc. It depicts a false flag operation by mercenary forces under the disguise of Russian spetnatz in Alaska, the War in Afghanistan still ongoing and the start of a Second Cold War between the US and a coalition led by China called SDC.
Initially set in 1990, but left vague in later issues. Set in a space opera future in which the Solar System has been colonised, sentient androids exist, and brains can be kept alive in tanks. Correctly predicted that Pluto would have moons named Charon, Styx and Cerberus.
Set in the late 20th century,[34] in which the United States and the Soviet Union are competing to launch the first orbital weapons platform. Aliens arrive and put a stop to it.
In 2006, the Lebanese prime minister falls ill and leaves the country for medical treatment. Taking advantage of the power vacuum, Syria invades Lebanon and Iranian-backed terrorists launch a rebellion against the Lebanese government. The United States and NATO, under the auspices of the United Nations, dispatches military forces, among them the U.S. Marine Corps, into Lebanon in order to repulse the invading Syrians and Iranians and restore order to the country. Correctly predicted a war happening in Lebanon in 2006.
In 1999, North America's inner cities have become unpoliceable "free fire zones" and military androids are assigned as schoolteachers. The sequel, Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994), is also set in 1999.
About a man (Adam Sandler) who finds a magic remote control which he can use to 'rewind' and 'fast-forward' through his life at will. One of the years he 'fast-forwards' to is 2017, where Michael Jackson is still alive (he died in 2009) and Britney Spears is still married to Kevin Federline (they divorced the year after the film's release). He also clicks forward to 2023, but events there only concern his family or Morty.[35]
Global peace has prevailed, and a sinister new threat to world stability is exposed with a genetically engineered virus that can stop the human aging process.
In 1999, the United Kingdom is a Communist state, having been invaded by the Soviet Union several years earlier. London has been renamed "Londongrad."[38]
A plague from space killed every dog and cat on Earth in 1983 which led to apes being domesticated and eventually turned into slaves. This in turn led to Caesar's revolution against humanity in 1991.
A crewed expedition to Mars returns with an artifact which is examined in a top-secret facility. It opens an interdimensional portal from which alien creatures invade the installation.[39]
The story is set in Florida in 2011. The protagonist is Jolyne Cujoh, who is the daughter of Jotaro Kujo. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being involved in a car accident and framed for murder. She is imprisoned at Green Dolphin Street Prison in Florida, nicknamed the "Aquarium", but her father decides to give Jolyne the powers that start the whole story.
Set in nearly the same world as the Cyberpunk 2020 board game (1990) but 57 years in the future. Portions of the game's story are set in or before August 2023, in which there is a fourth "corporate war" and a megacorporation "Araska" is bombed with fissile material in a terrorist attack by the character Johnny Silverhand from the role-playing games, killing ~500,000 people. Cyberpunk Red (2020) also tells this story.[46]
In the fictional village of Winden, Germany, the disappearances of several children, teenagers, and adults are linked to a time portal in a cave system that only opens once every 33 years. On June 27, 2020, Earth is ravaged in a nuclear apocalypse that leaves very few survivors.
Set in a dystopian future after a terrorist electromagnetic pulse attack wipes out much of modern civilization. Genetic augmentation of humans is now mastered. The second half of Season 1 and the first half of Season 2 are set in 2020. Predicted the ubiquitous presence of remote aerial drones.
The Doctor travels to 2012 in this episode, to a Museum of "Alien Artifacts". A throwaway line suggests that scientists have found the cure to the common cold.
Alternative version of Lord of the World in which the Church fares much better, and the world becomes Catholic, with the exception, at first, of Germany and the Far East.
The second major part of the story takes place in 2009–2010 (2012–2013 in the anime), when crime around the world has decreased significantly due to the mass killing of criminals by "Kira".
Predicts the collapse of the United States economy in 1979. The remaining form of entertainment is a transcontinental car race where innocent bystanders can be hit and killed for points.[10]
Main characters are cryogenically frozen in 1996 and wake up in 2032. Also predicted a "Great Earthquake" in 2010 that merged parts of Southern California.[10]
In January 2023, Earth merges with the fantasy world of Alneath in an event called the "Fantasion", resulting in Earth becoming populated with various fantasy creatures, as well as Earth's industry merging with Alneath's magic to create magical engineering known as "magineering". The rest of the series is set in the year 2099.[49]
All the world's kaiju are confined to an island called "Monsterland". Initially "the close of the 20th century" in the Japanese version, 1999 in the subsequent English-dubbed version.
2021 in later editions. The inspiration for the film Blade Runner. Set in a post-nuclear future in which synthetic humans are employed as slave labour.
Unfinished novel written by Adam Mickiewicz. The first version of the novel from 1829 presented the world in the year 2000 which was dominated by China, it also shows Poland regaining independence, predicting women's rights worldwide, access to electronic devices, interplanetary communication, and contact with alien civilizations.[51][52]
A future history of the world, focused on northern California, following a series of nuclear events of uncertain provenance. The world has descended into a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which mutations are common, animals have evolved into higher intelligences and telekinesis exists.
In 1975, Earth is completely destroyed by a doomsday device created by Red China. The last survivors are denied a place on Venus by the intelligent population.
World War III broke out prior to 1970 with the United States eventually emerging as the victor. During the war, Washington, D.C. was destroyed and the capital was moved to Denver, Colorado. In 1970, household robots and the use of suspended animation are common.
An adaptation of the 1948 short story by Ray Bradbury. On June 18, 1987, Earth was evacuated due to the fallout from a nuclear war. Humanity settled on Mars. By 2007, consideration was being given to repopulating Earth.
The book opens in the then-contemporary period, in which a measles-like disease has wiped out most of the Earth's population. The second section, "The Year 22", takes place 22 years later in which a primitive community is being forged in Berkeley, California. The final section is set in an indeterminate future date, in which the protagonist of the novel, a college student at the beginning, is elderly.
In 1992, the United States of America and the United States of Europe dominate world affairs and there are no more wars. The city of Columbia, formerly New York, is cleaner, better organized, more peaceful, healthier and generally better than before. Electrification (generated by solar power) and mechanization have brought widespread prosperity and the extremes of wealth and poverty have been levelled. Government has assumed more responsibility: all land is owned by the state and people lease the sites of their palatial houses.
The United Defense Force (UDF), a global military alliance established to combat an alien invasion of Continental Europe, finally achieves a victory over the Mimics at Verdun using newly developed mech-suits. Alien invasion starts in 2015.[57]
In 2018, Earth is being ravaged by earthquakes and floods, causing widespread famine. Overpopulation exacerbates the problem. By this time, Earth is politically divided into zones overseen by the World Zone Authority, a successor to the United Nations. In the novel by Ian Marter, the story is set in 2030.
Series of postcards predicting what the world might be like in 2000. Depicts battles between dirigibles, radium-powered heaters, winged backpacks, personal aircraft, and phonograph journals.
The film predicts a massive earthquake that floods the San Fernando Valley in 2000, rendering Los Angeles an island.[11] The US capital is moved to Lynchburg, Virginia after an evangelist from there becomes US president for life.
Predicts a 400% rise in crime rate in 1988, prompting the remaking of Manhattan Island into a nationwide maximum security prison with no guards. In reality, crime rates in the US peaked in the film's release year of 1981, were about 20% lower in 1997 and have continued to drop ever since.[59][60]
In 2017, the greenhouse effect and global warming have resulted in widespread droughts, floods, hurricanes and the outbreak of fires which have wreaked devastation over Earth.
Mad Max-inspired post-nuclear wasteland in which superpowered martial artists fight each other for dominance. The world is described as having been devastated by a series of nuclear wars in the 1990s.
The action takes place 30 years after the events of the first part of Five Nights at Freddy's (it is believed that the action of the first part of the game was around 1993). In the third part of the game, there are technologies for repelling and detecting animatronics.[65]
In 1988, the United States is a fascistic police state following a Second Civil War. The black population is nearly extinct and personal aircraft are common.
The main characters travel forward in time to November 2009. Time travel is commonplace and criminals travel back in time to kidnap victims for organ harvesting.[10]
Predicted computers with AIvoice assistants, a voice-activated record player, bars with automatic electronic bouncer systems, and hand-held laser-guns.
Depicts Bart and Lisa Simpson as teenagers (with a reference to Lisa at age 12), while Homer and Marge have separated. By 2013, underwater homes and 3D holographic recording are possible.
As a result of the class wars in 1990, the middle class has mandated that people be middling or dull. Non-conformists are imprisoned in the inner city ghetto.[70][71]
In 2019, amid devastating global climate change triggered by the final depletion of the Amazon rainforest, Earth is threatened with invasion and enslavement by a powerful force of alien cyborgs, known in-game as the "Xidus".
A former Homeland Security agent is sent to a remote island where she investigates a retrieved alien spacecraft orbiting Neptune. Attempts to develop a mind-control serum.[35]
The film opens in 1979, with the main character entering suspended animation. The bulk of the film (and the subsequent series, if it had been picked up) takes place in 2133.[73]
In later years (around 2020), environmental disasters cause the appearance of giant monsters and superhumans, dubbed "mutants", who are then recruited into the Earth Defense Force (EDF) to battle the monsters.
A man falls asleep in 1892 and wakes up in the year 2000; trains are supersonic and golf and politics are the only activities not yet dominated by masculinized women.
In 1979, a crewed spacecraft reaches Saturn. In 1980, scientists invent nuclear jet engines to attempt to move Earth away from a runaway planet on a collision course with it.[74]
Following economic chaos in the 1980s, democratic government in the United Kingdom has been overthrown in a bloodless coup, the Royal Family have fled into self-imposed exile and the UK is ruled autocratically by the Prime Minister Sir Timothy Hobson. Hobson is initially a pawn of a military officer by the name of Roger, who later becomes Minister of Defence.
In 2023, Earth has been in an interstellar war with the extraterrestrial Space Monsters. The main character is training to be a mecha pilot. Time-dilated space travel is possible.[75][35]
Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth devastated by nuclear war. A scavenger discovers the head of a cyborg in the desert, and it later reanimates and goes on a murderous rampage.
A misogynistic fanatical religious cult, called The Sons of Jacob, takes control of part of the United States in the 1990s and establishes a totalitarian regime, with the US now named "The Republic of Gilead" and ruthless towards women. The novel was adapted into a TV series in 2020.
In 1991, the Third Atomic War ended. The war left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable due to the high concentration of gamma rays in the atmosphere. The survivors moved underground and eventually established a civilization.
Irish reunification occurs in this year, due, it is argued, to successful terrorist actions. This line was removed from all broadcasts in the UK and Ireland until 2006.
In 1999, an electromagnetic shield is placed around the Earth to protect its ozone layer which was ruined by pollution. 25 years later, a global corporation controls the shield.
The film predicted an outbreak of a re-engineered measles virus in 2009 that kills 94% of the populace and mutates 5% into zombie-like "Darkseekers". Also predicted a Batman vs. Superman film,[77][10] to be released in the film's future 2010.
The United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945. St Paul's Cathedral is razed to make room for a Nazi Party headquarters and guerrilla warfare and any potential dissidence is suppressed through heavy policing.
Starting sometime after 2001, each year is given a different sponsor name in a timeline called Subsidized Time, of which one of the years involves the year 2007. The story discusses this going into the ninth year of this format.[78][79][80]
In 1910, Germany launches an invasion of the UK. The German forces eventually reach London and occupy half the city. Although London is later liberated, the war is a stalemate as Germany has occupied Belgium and the Netherlands.
In the 1930s, European engineers and their military escort seek to revive an actual 19th-century proposal to flood the Sahara desert with waters from the Mediterranean Sea to create an inland "Sahara Sea" for both commercial and military purposes.
By 1910, the Socialist Party of America has become a major national party. An Oligarchy arises in the US from 1912 to 1932. Japan conquers East Asia and creates its own empire, India gains independence from the British Empire and Europe becomes socialist. Canada, Mexico, and Cuba form their own Oligarchies and are aligned with the United States.
Jason Voorhees was captured by the US government in 2008 for experimentation and causes trouble in 2010 when he is cryogenically frozen. The rest of the film takes place in outer space in 2455.[82]
Racial tension in the United States has reached such a point that racial enclaves now exist throughout the country and paranoia and unrest are stoked by arms dealers.
By 2000, the United States is a superpower spanning multiple continents. By this time, solar power, air travel and space travel are commonplace. The Arctic Ocean is being dammed and Earth's axial tilt is being adjusted.
The rocket Luna lands on the Moon on October 22, 1965, and the first moonwalk is broadcast to Earth over the radio. In April 1971, a mission to Mars is launched from the Moon.
In 1980, personal airplanes are common in New York City, people have numbers instead of names, the US government will only permit people to marry if they are compatible, and babies are readily procurable from vending machines. A crewed mission to Mars is also depicted.
Information technology has taken over the world. A staphylococcus plague wipes out 40 million people in 2006. In 2020, the first woman American President Emily Forrester is assassinated.[87] The novel concerns a group of people who spread disinformation / conspiracy theories on the internet to undermine the government's influence by disinformation.[88][89] Multiple global conflicts including the United States and Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, the Balkans.[31][89] 2% of the population is in prison. The protagonists also employ an airship. As Daniel Zalewski of The New York Times writes: "First comes the '06 plague,' followed by 'the '07 financial crash', the 'massacre of the Falun Gong cult in 2018' and the 'national E. coli outbreak of 2021.' Put these headlines together, and you've got yourself a dystopia!"[89]
In 2000, Dan Quayle is President of the United States. The United States and the United Kingdom are fighting a war, codenamed Operation Tropical Storm, over Bermuda.[90] Conventional handguns have been banned, with law enforcement carrying non-lethal "stun" pistols. Nationwide budget changes have resulted in the adoption of cryonic suspension over standard incarceration for convicted criminals.[91]
The Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order, came to power in the UK during a brutal civil war in 2000. By 2020, they rule most of Britain.
After a worldwide ecological disaster, the population of Los Angeles moved underground due to the toxic atmosphere in 1989. In 2017, the United States is a megacorporation and a police state with its capital in Detroit, and at war with the UK.
Former astronaut Alcide Nikopol wakes up from a 30-year cryogenic sleep in space, teams up with Horus to fight the Paris dictatorship. Other Egyptian gods have been hovering over the city in a spaceship.[31] Two nuclear wars have happened in the meantime. Sequels La Femme piège (1986), and Froid Équateur (1992), as well as a video game Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals (2008) are also set around this time. The film adaptation Immortal, is set in the late 21st century.
In 2009, voter apathy is at an all-time high in the United Kingdom, and a new right-wing political party, The Democratic Consensus Party has just been voted into office. Unbeknownst to the public, the DCP has a sinister hidden agenda to do away with democracy and turn the country into a police state.
Set in a dystopian future wracked by global warming and overpopulation. The main character can retroactively alter reality, creating alternate realities, so many of the novel's predictions are undone, including a nuclear war in 1998.[92]
A disease known as the "Green Flu" breaks out in the United States, turning those afflicted into mindless zombies. Two weeks after the initial outbreak, the entire state of Pennsylvania is overrun, leaving four survivors to try to escape and reach safety.
Although most of the episode takes place in 2036, there is mention of a 2015 when the Observers took over the planet and initiated a purge of the populace.
Set in Neo-Kabukichō, a fictitious version of the real red-light district of Shinjuku, Tokyo. A wave of violent crime is being caused by a new contact lens drug called "Skull Eyes."
The episode depicts Big Ben as a digital clock that has not yet been properly set (i.e., it still shows 12:00). Emotional robots are common and car engines make the same sound as the flying cars in The Jetsons. World War III apparently occurred at some point prior to the events of the episode, in which the United Kingdom saved the United States.
In 1999, an international organization known as the Space Patrol has custody of all of Earth's remaining nuclear weapons. By this time, there is a moonbase.
Jupiter 2, the main ship of the series, was launched on October 16, 1997. By this time, Earth is severely overpopulated. The Robinsons were on a mission to colonize Alpha Centauri.
By 1997, time travel is in common use. A librarian named B. O. Boyne from 1997 accidentally leaves an almanac from the future behind when he visits 1956.
In 1916, World War I had an even more devastating effect than before. Germany conquered Holland, Denmark and Switzerland, Italy annexed Dalmatia and the Trentino and a "Slav republic" was formed which was composed of Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, Albania and Bulgaria. The United States remained neutral, as did the newly formed United States of South America which was composed of the Spanish-speaking South American republics. The monarchs of Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom all voluntarily abdicated and those countries became republics.
By 1978, the Moon has yet to be landed on and a self-described "robber baron" bluffs and schmoozes his way towards purchasing it, particularly through cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos and that the equatorial countries that the Moon passes over must have a claim to its land.
In 1960, the first exploratory spaceship from Earth arrives on Mars. In the Dimension X radio adaptation in 1950, the first Earth ship XR-53 lands on Mars on April 20, 1987.
Short stories about humans living on a terraformed Mars.[96] A 1997 edition of the book advances all the dates by 31 years, thus running from 2030 to 2057.
Predicts the dominance of Catholicism in the 20th century. The novel correctly predicted that the Ottoman Empire would collapse in the 20th century and that a British monarch named George VI would reign during that century.
The series was not set in a specific era, but clues throughout the scripts indicated that it took place in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, with the first Moon landing somewhere around 1975.
In 2005, terrorists seize control of a military nuclear storage base in Alaska. Depicts a giant mech called "Metal Gear", rail guns, cyborg ninjas, optical camouflage, nanomachines and high frequency swords.
The introduction mission is set in 2007, but the rest of the game is set in 2009. Reanimated corpses are placed in cybernetic exoskeletons. Portable rail guns exist. The President of the United States is a clone who resigns and forms a paramilitary group.[101][100][16]
Set nine years after the events of the original Metal Gear Solid[103] and five years after Sons of Liberty.[104] The world is in perpetual war called "War Economy". Battlefields are safer with a system of information and nanomachines. PMCs are commonplace and fight in wars instead of armies. A new camouflage called "Octocamo" is developed by DARPA.
Set in the same war-torn future as Guns of the Patriots. Cyborgs are now commonplace despite being discriminated, most skyscrapers in Denver are more than 1 km high, holograms are commonplace, prototyping is done with virtual simulation, and real AI was developed.
In 1980, an evil alien race known simply as the Invaders are about to take over the Earth, using assorted daikaiju (giant monsters) and other fiendish plots.
By 2003, five world powers have established colonies on the Moon: the United States (Moonbase 1), the Soviet Union (Moonbase 2), Europe (Moonbase 3), China (Moonbase 4) and Brazil (Moonbase 5). The European Moonbase 3 was established in 1995.[105]
In 1920, the United States adopted a system of economics described as being "beyond Socialism", a strain of nationalism that answered all the questions posed by socialism without actually being socialist, renovating its society and culture. In 1940, the US is a country with no poverty or prostitution, "no labor problem – no color problem – no sex problem – almost no disease – very little accident – practically no fires," a place in which "the only kind of prison left is called a quarantine," where problems of deforestation and soil erosion are being remedied, and in which "no one needs to work over two hours a day and most people work four...."[106]
The United States has established an island facility called Nanomachine Island to research and develop nanotechnology for implementation in military and civilian life.
Cryonics had become very popular and a cryonic satellite was launched into Earth orbit. The remastered version of this episode places these events in 1994.
Household appliances are artificially intelligent. Household robots are common if ineffective. Government departments are privatised. Job interviews are predetermined by publicly available romantic and voting preferences. Jobs are gamified. The Lake District is underwater after a meteorite strike. Floppy disks are still in use.
In 1962, Louis Thorson became the first man to walk on the Moon. By 1972, travel to the Moon and other planets in the Solar System was routine. By 1982, humanity was exploring other parts of the galaxy.
In 1997, all weapons of mass destruction have been decommissioned. There is a European-American weather controlspace station FLORIDA ARKLAB in orbit of Earth.
Set in a world in which people can purchase their adult bodies, but everyone goes for a small number of popular options. Rod Serling opens the episode stating, "For want of a better estimate, let's call it the year 2000".[107]
By 1923, a Jewish state officially named the New Society has risen as European Jews have rediscovered and re-inhabited their Altneuland in the Land of Israel. In reality, the State of Israel was established in 1948.
On April 10, 1965, the United States is testing a cosmic ray bomb which is many times more powerful than a nuclear bomb. By this time, 20 other countries have nuclear weaponry. Videophones called vidiscreens are widely used.
In 2013, a rift to another dimension unleashes gigantic creatures onto the Earth, which humans fight with mechas. Whether this film qualifies as a prediction or alternate future depends on whether the rift opens before or after July 2013.
Written in 1863 and published in 1994. Predicted gas-powered cars (and gas stations), fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, WMDs and many other things.
Two alien races involved in an interstellar war join rival companies on Earth.[108] Predicted: Anti-gravity devices, holographics, first sentient artificial intelligence computer.[109]
The first moon landing discovers a crashed alien ship, and, after dealing with its occupant, returns alien technology to Earth, the desire for which nearly triggers a world war.
Philip Dru leads the democratic western United States in the Second American Civil War against the plutocratic East. After becoming a benevolent dictator and an acclaimed leader, he steps down, having restored justice and democracy.
BBC series offering many alternate views of the future, several set in 1999:[41]
"Bright Eyes": The UK is in the middle of a Europe-wide war.
"The Nuclear Family": The British government is on a nuclear war footing in the hope of advancing technological development. A father takes his family on a working holiday, cleaning floors in an underwater missile base.
"Shades": Youths in a tower block are kept passive by pornographic virtual reality.
Beyond Coast, mankind's first fully functional space colony, is completed. Three years later, five policemen from Earth are chosen to enforce the law among the first wave of general immigrants, becoming the titular Policenauts. The main story is set 27 years later in 2040, when one of the original Policenauts, Jonathan Ingram, is now working as a detective in Old Los Angeles after an accident during a space walking experiment left him stranded in space for 24 years in suspended animation, preserving his youth.
Sixteen-plus years after unspecified apocalyptic events, US society has collapsed due to racially motivated attacks by a fanatical militia-like group, culminating in nuclear war and followed by plagues, that collectively left a huge impact on civilization and erased most technology.
World War III breaks out on May 10, 1952. After three years of fighting, the United Nations emerges victorious over the Soviet Union, which is subsequently occupied.
Examines an interpretation of the prophecies of Nostradamus; in particular Quatrian 10–72: "In the year 1999 and seven months from the skies will come the great king of terror".
The US and the Soviet Union engaged in a limited nuclear war, but are still hostile. The Sino-Soviet split never happened and China is part of the Soviet Bloc. Flying cars and interplanetary travel are commonplace.
In 2014, an economic collapse presages the election of a totalitarian government. By 2022, the US celebrates an annual national holiday known as "the Purge", during which all crime, including murder, are decriminalized for a 12-hour period.
The United States is a dystopian country ruled by a totalitarian government known as the "New Founding Fathers". The Purge is being used to save the country's collapsing economy. Most of the film concerns activities near the Sixth Purge on March 21, 2023.[111][35]
Matthew Forman is put into cold sleep on June 18, 2023, in the hopes that his inoperable cancer can be cured in the future.[112] The majority of the episode takes place in 2347.
The introductory part of the film, in which dragons are found under London, is set in 2008. The remainder of the film is set in 2020, in a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun with dragons.
This short story, part of the weird fiction book The King in Yellow, is set in a future New York City where suicide has been legalized and facilitated by the American government, with 'lethal chambers' that provide a painless death readily available to the public. While the United States is a prosperous and militarily strong nation, much of Europe has become anarchic.
On July 24, 1997, humanity destroyed itself (as well as all other mammals) in a biological war in what became known as the Day of Silence or the Biocaust. Only a few hundred androids were left to populate the Earth. In 2009, two androids created a human, Cain, from unaffected DNA samples to lead the Second Coming of humankind.
Loose Hong Konger adaptation of the Riki-Oh manga. By 2001, all prisons and other correctional facilities have been handed over to the private industry. A nuclear war devastated the planet and the economy, leading to high crime rates.
In a Star Trek-esque 2010s, Filburt's children ask him the meaning of a banana which they found in a refrigerator from 1996. At the end of the episode, Rocko, Spunky, Heffer and Filburt all get blasted off into space in Rocko's house and would return to O-Town in a retconned 2016, in the 2019 special Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling.
By 2018, the world is a corporate dictatorship. American football is no longer an active sport and rollerball is the only sport shown on cable television. Books are replaced by summaries on computers. Households have about four television monitors in a room. People are required to stay home to watch sports.[81]The reboot is set only three years into its future and is regarded more as contemporary.[11][10]
Set in early 21st century Japan (c.2020). A group of scientists and hospital administrators, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Welfare, have developed the Z-001: a computerized hospital bed with robotic features.[119][120]
Predicts an economic collapse and totalitarian takeover of the US in 2017. The film itself takes place in 2019.[121][81] Refers to the "Great Quake of '97".
The synthetic protoplasm that makes robots a possibility is discovered in 1932. The play itself takes place some decades after that. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, example of an AI takeoverin fiction. The 1948 BBC adaptation takes place from 1980 to 1990.[123]
Earth is invaded and subsequently destroyed by aliens. A small number of survivors, including the President of the United States, are abducted and placed in a virtual world.
By 2018, the ocean floor has been colonised. The dolphin Darwin can communicate with humans with a translation device.[124] The first crewed mission to Mars was launched in 2015 and returned to Earth in 2018.
Correctly predicts Queen Elizabeth II being named as the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, although at the time of the novel's publication, she was only third in the line of succession.
Depicts a group of all-female police officers protecting Tokyo from an invasion of extra-dimensional creatures called Lucifer Hawks. The manga was started in 1989 and is set in 2024, but the anime starts with an episode set in 2023.[31]
Malibu is affected by wildfires in November 1993, Chicago by November 1999 suffers from high pollution, a giant monster ravages Hollywood in January 2001, and New York City's Manhattan is affected by a nuclear meltdown in 2007.
In 2007, humanity is undergoing severe global famine. Scientists build bionic creatures to help grow food, but the creatures eventually revolt against them and start a war.
Partially set in a future in which a "Balkanized" United States has been partitioned into twenty separate countries "so that it will never again be a threat to world peace." Chicago has been completely destroyed and rebuilt after being "hydrogen-bombed by angry Chinamen." The novel's protagonist Billy Pilgrim is assassinated with a laser gun.
Predicts the deaths of 80% of the world's population due to a biological hazard in the fictional city of Chernoton, Russia. The original Japanese story depicts this event occurring on June 6, 1991, but the later-released English localization moves the year to 1996. The main story is set 51 years later on the manmade island of Neo Kobe City, where the titular race of androids are secretly killing members of the high echelon of society and disguising themselves as their victims. Inspired by Blade Runner and Akira.
In 1960, an unnamed foreign power launches 22 robot airplanes carrying hetrodyne bombs and threatens to detonate them in the major cities of the United States unless the US president surrenders the entire nation to this foreign power. Denver is destroyed, resulting in the deaths of 46,000 people.
California has split into two, hyper-Libertarian independent republics in which no law applies nationwide. Guard dogs are augmented cyborgs. Predicted virtual worlds and Google Earth.
An American anti-abolitionist satire set in a future city where racial mixing of blacks and whites is socially mandatory. Correctly predicts the abolition of slavery in the US by the 20th century.
Adaptation of Make Room! Make Room! The world is severely overpopulated, and resources are depleting.[128] In 2022, the population of New York City was actually around 18.8 million instead of 40 million.[57]
In 2015, the overpopulated civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ.[129]
The Eugenics Wars were fought from 1992 to 1996. During this time, Khan Noonien Singh ruled a quarter of the world. Before this, interplanetary ships and suspended animation had been perfected. In 2018, advancements in sublight propulsion technology make sleeper ships obsolete.[lower-alpha 2]
On June 18, 2007, a renegade military scientist, Dr. James Bent, uses a hijacked space shuttle to drop his deadly Zone Generators across half of the Earth, thus creating a region called the Spiral Zone due to its shape. Millions of people are trapped in the dark mists of the Spiral Zone and transformed into "Zoners" with lifeless yellow eyes and strange red patches on their skin.
In 2023, because of an economic collapse, the United States government is overthrown by The Corporation and a totalitarian police state is established. The video game takes place in 2035.[31]
War in the Middle East destroys most oil fields, leading to a global oil crisis and a second Great Depression. As the US begins to collapse, mercenary armies gain massive power, and begin to use high-end military craft like F-16s.[132]
Depicts a world in which a nuclear war has reduced the United Kingdom to a pre-industrial, pre-capitalist state and greatly reduced its population; the United States, Soviet Union and India are the world's great powers.
Episode 1 describes events from 1999 to 2009 when Macross first landed. Most of the story takes place starting in 2009. The final episode takes place in January 2012. A feature film, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, was made in 1984 covering the same events. An OVA epilogue subtitled Flash Back 2012 was produced in 1987 and takes place in September 2012. Was adapted into an English language version called Robotech that aired in syndication around 1985. A prequel, Macross Zero, set in 2008, was released between 2002 and 2004, but since many events in the series timeline had already occurred by that point, it could arguably be viewed as alternate history, rather than future.
In the 1920s, certain men are supermales who are capable of prodigious feats of endurance and sexual athleticism. Perpetual-motion food gives cyclists the strength and stamina to keep up with the train. Love machines can make one person fall in love with another.
By 2000, Earth has a world government led by the President of the United Worlds, Mars has been colonized, and space travel is common. All of the planet's oceans were dissolved due to an atomic experiment.
World leaders gather in Los Angeles to sign a United Nations treaty abolishing nuclear weapons in 2005; meanwhile various terrorists try to disrupt the treaty signing or use it to garner attention for their causes.
Virtual reality technology has advanced to the point that helmets called NerveGear can directly interface with the player's brain and allow them to see the game world and control their avatars with their minds rather than through displays and controllers. The first game designed for it, a MMORPG called Sword Art Online, launches on November 6 of this year, with the developer revealing that he made everyone unable to logout, and in-game deaths or external attempts to remove the NerveGear will result in real death by means of a microwave pulse to the head.[135][136]
As a result of environmental pollution during the 1970s and the 1980s, the natural environment has largely been destroyed in 2009. The use of pesticides killed off plants with only insects surviving, water is scarce and smog is a permanent problem. Germany has partly turned to a steppe landscape and the share of oxygen in the air has fallen to 16%.[137]
The film mainly takes place in 2020 when an advanced Terminator, Rev-9, is sent back in time to kill Dani Ramos, who will become a threat to the machines in the future. The Legion's rise is averted when Rev-9 is destroyed.
John Connor was conceived on May 14, 1984, meaning he was born early in 1985. The police computer lists him as ten years old. The film predicts a future AI takeover and nuclear war in 1997, with August 29, 1997 being the "Judgement Day".[57] This is averted when the Cyberdyne Systems headquarters is destroyed.
First part of the film takes place in 2027, but a later part of the film is set in 2017 when the Terminator from the 1980s has aged.[21] A new operating system, "Genisys", is released worldwide and will eventually evolve into Skynet.
In December 1986, Earth's former sister planet Mondas returns to the Sol System. The 1985 Doctor Who serial Attack of the Cybermen also references these events.
In 1983, the nations of the world agreed to the Oslo Disarmament, resulting in nuclear stockpiles being severely reduced. In the early 1990s, the Republic of Ireland declared war on the UK, conquered Northern Ireland and expelled Protestants from that region. In August 1992, Irish commandos introduced LSD into the water supplies of much of the UK. Under the influence of the drug, the Prime Minister and Parliament ordered the use of nuclear weapons against Ireland and her allies, South Africa and China. The Commonwealth backed the UK in the emerging World War III. By the end of 1992, half of the world's population was dead; 90% had perished from plague and famine by 1994. Texas declared its independence from the United States and became the Second Republic of Texas. It went to war with Israel in 1999.
In 1990, the US government has been taken by the youth. It has decreed that the middle-aged are a drain on society's resources. At 55, people are sent to detention camps and given a maximum of ten years to live.
In 2009, the technology to send messages back and forth through time is invented. In 2010, the Soviet Union still exists, video telephones are commonplace, and all modern automobiles come with an automated control system allowing one to cruise hands-free on most official roads and highways.
A company in 1999 creates a simulated reality of 1937, only to realise that it is in fact a simulated reality generated in 2024. The film leaves open ended whether 2024 is itself a simulation.
In 1988, nuclear war breaks out between the United States and the Soviet Union, leading to millions of deaths all over the world and society reverting to medieval levels.
In 1994, a runaway planet hurtles between Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction and causing radical changes to Earth's climate and geography.
In 1998, Earth is ravaged by ecological disasters such as algal blooms and diebacks on the brink of large scale extinctions. Various other events are mentioned in passing, such as student riots and an event of nuclear terrorism against New York City which took place before the events of the novel.
Predicted the rise of a unified European superstate called the "European Federation". Also predicted that a militarization of space would reach its peak in 2020.
Predicts a war between Russia and NATO in 2008 after a coup d'état in Moscow by ultra-nationalists. Correctly predicted a Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008.[138]
A civil war in Mexico erupts, orchestrated by Mexicans opposed to the pending ratification of a military alliance by Mexico with Canada and the United States.
A civil war in Mexico erupts, orchestrated by Mexicans opposed to the pending ratification of a military alliance by Mexico with Canada and the United States.
Predicts a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 2009 following a revanchist coup d'état in the former. To protect shipping lanes in the Red Sea, the US militarily intervenes on Eritrea's side and ejects the invading Ethiopians from the country.
Fidel Castro dies in 2006; this is followed by years of violent instability in Cuba. By 2010, Cuba prepares to host its first free and fair elections in decades, but various terrorist groups still pose a threat to the democratization process. The US dispatches special forces to Cuba to safeguard the transition to democracy, and despite efforts by terrorists and even the Colombian FARC to stop it, the transition happens successfully.
The United States dispatches special forces to Colombia in 2010 to battle leftist terrorists after the latter attacks United Nations personnel in the country.
GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of the game depict a war between North Korea and South Korea in 2007, with the Xbox version of the game depicting US special forces operating in North Korea 4 years later during a quasi-civil war there to stop a rogue North Korean general from launching nuclear missiles.
A former Croatian Ustase member launches a series of terrorist attacks across the world to exact revenge on the former Allies for defeating the Axis in World War II and in the hopes that said attacks will revitalize the neo-fascist movement.
A nationalistic strongman takes over Georgia in a coup d'état and surreptitiously invades Azerbaijan using special forces; the Georgians then conduct a secretive genocide against Azerbaijanis. Upon learning of this through the National Security Agency, NATO and the United States intervene militarily to depose the Georgian leader and eject the Georgian military from Azerbaijan.
North Korea invades South Korea and an attempted coup d'état in Japan by Japanese ultra-nationalists is foiled by the United States through the National Security Agency. Correctly predicted North Korea becoming a nuclear weapons state by 2007.
Terrorists attack Washington, D.C. using an electromagnetic pulse device and then proceed to take over the White House and hold the US president hostage; predicted a female US president holding office in 2011.
An Indonesian terrorist, angered by the independence of former Indonesian colony East Timor and US support for it, launches a terroristic war against East Timor and the United States, the latter over its support for East Timorese independence and sovereignty.
From 1930 to 1932, the United States fights a major war against Japan. The war began when Japan attacked the East Coast in April 1930. Many American cities were attacked and destroyed but the US emerged victorious on July 4, 1932.
On May 1, 1976, the United States and other Western powers launch a biological warfare campaign against China, resulting in the destruction of the Chinese population. China is later colonized by the Western Powers.
In a dystopian United States, an industrialist builds a cyborg and gives him a mission to kill the leader of an ecological faction. However, he fails and takes asylum in Arizona, where he must choose between his human and robotic natures.
In 2003, a large comet strikes Venus, dispersing its atmosphere, speeding its rotation and providing it with acidic oceans. Colonisation begins in 2012. By 2089 the two native populations (on Ishtar and Aphrodite Terra) are at war.
The storyline of the comic takes place from November 5, 1997, to November 5, 1998. The 2005 film adaptation is set between these dates in 2025 and 2026, but there are references to 2014 and 2015.
Time travel was discovered in 1977. After the War of 1980, which destroyed all plant life, guns were outlawed all over Earth. In 1997, the credit is the American unit of currency. By this time, health rays, video phones and moving sidewalks are commonplace and supermarkets are equipped with robot cashiers.
Depicts a civil war in South Africa after a soft coup d'état by reactionaries attempts to forestall anti-apartheid legislative reforms; correctly predicted the end of South African apartheid and South Africa transitioning to majority rule in 1994.
In that film, the moon is colonized. A group of men land on Venus, where they find a prehistoric world consisted of plants, various monsters, and so on.
A nuclear attack on New York City in October 1988 resulted in a nuclear war in which the United States and the Soviet Union were both devastated. In the vacuum left by the devastation of the US and the Soviets, the United Kingdom and Japan became superpowers.
On January 15, 2021, a fleet under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer is sent back in time to June 2, 1942. Hillary Clinton was a wartime President.
In 1952, the National Party comes to power in South Africa and institutes a fascist dictatorship. Correctly predicted the rise of apartheid in South Africa and its subsequent end.
The family of the protagonist, John Roe O'Neill, are killed by an IRA bomb on May 20, 1996, resulting in his descent into insanity. He plans a gendercidal revenge and creates a plague that kills only women, but for which men are the carriers. O'Neill then releases it in Ireland (for supporting the terrorists), England (for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause) and Libya (for training said terrorists).
At the dawn of the new millennium, the human world secretly coexists with the demonic "Black World" – an alternate dimension populated by supernatural demons with a secret human police force known as the Black Guard protecting the boundary. For centuries, a peace treaty between the Black World and the world of humans has been maintained to ensure relative harmony. When a group of radicalized members of the Black World conspire to sabotage the renegotiation of the treaty, the Black Guard must stop them.
In 1999, the world has been reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland due to an inexplicable gust of wind that wiped even the most basic memories, such as speech and civility, from the minds of the world's populace.
In 1999, US morality has fallen to such lows that the execution of an (innocent) person is treated as if it were the Super Bowl or a similar sports tournament. A fictional television network desires to broadcast the execution as a pay-per-view event.
By 1925, the socialist Coöperative Association of America has eliminated poverty, tenements, slums, litter and other aspects of the old style American economy. Photo IDs are used. Both men and women pursue physical fitness, and work out in gymnasiums. The public school system monitors the schoolchildren's nutritional needs.
Published one year before Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, it depicts a 1997 in which the failure of his reforms leads to a nuclear war between the US and the USSR.
While the game takes place in 2912, the setting's events are ultimately kicked off by a student of the University of Tokyo accidentally discovering how to create wormholes in 2022. By then, according to supplementary material, a simplified version of Japanese had replaced English as the primary language of science following Japan experiencing an economic boom and becoming the center of research. It also predicted that the International Space Station was going to be completed in 2007, and that by 2011 quantum computers would "dominate the market" and nanotechnology would be about to become practical.
In the summer of 1978, a time travel experiment is conducted by the United States military. In 1980, there are ongoing race riots in Chicago. President Meeks' successful handling of the riots results in him winning that year's presidential election in a landslide. In 1999, Chicago is in the midst of a racial civil war. The city had recently been attacked with a nuclear bomb launched from China on behalf of black guerrillas.
A British family witnesses life unfold over a 25-year period, including economic upheaval, populism, pandemics, species extinctions and new technologies.
Album by Nine Inch Nails which predicts several future events, such as a bioterrorist attack and a nuclear war between the US and Iran, ending in 2022 when America is "born again".
↑ Within the Star Trek universe, a 2001 novel would portray the story as part of a secret history in which numerous real-world calamities from the period were actually parts of a single wider conflict.
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