{"id":55671,"date":"2015-02-04T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/6-futurist-predictions-about-technology-that-actually-came-true\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T01:40:10","slug":"6-futurist-predictions-about-technology-that-actually-came-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/6-futurist-predictions-about-technology-that-actually-came-true\/","title":{"rendered":"6 futurist predictions about technology that actually came true"},"content":{"rendered":"

6. Handheld technology <\/p>\n

Beyonce takes a selfie Photo: Beyonce.com <\/p>\n

If you thought the art of taking a perfect selfie was only practiced by the Instagram generation, think again. <\/p>\n

Here are a few examples of when art inadvertently predicted the future. <\/p>\n

5. Big Brother <\/p>\n

George Orwell's 1984 Photo: Penguin\/AP <\/p>\n

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

Big Brother is watching you, wrote the India-born author in his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four. <\/p>\n

His vision of a surveillance society in which governments monitor and keep tabs on what we are doing is a reality today. <\/p>\n

Big Brother on the big screen <\/p>\n

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