6. Handheld technology

Beyonce takes a selfie Photo: Beyonce.com

If you thought the art of taking a perfect selfie was only practiced by the Instagram generation, think again.

Here are a few examples of when art inadvertently predicted the future.

5. Big Brother

George Orwell's 1984 Photo: Penguin/AP

OK, so the selfie may not have been predicted in ancient times, but George Orwell knew exactly what was going on back in 1949.

Big Brother is watching you, wrote the India-born author in his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.

His vision of a surveillance society in which governments monitor and keep tabs on what we are doing is a reality today.

Big Brother on the big screen

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Futurist predictions about technology that actually came true