Across the 1,800-year-old history of science fiction, authors and creators were fixated on the year 2000. From real inventions inspired by science fiction to movies accurately predicting the future, the science fiction of the past has had a surprisingly good track record of prognosticating what life would look like in the 2000s. But let's face it: because the 21st century was built up so much in the collective imagination, and because what were once technological marvels are now commonplace or even mundane, it truly feels like our present day is also the future.

With the 2000s a quarter of the way over with, it's a good time to reflect on what the future, or present, became, judging it against what works of sci-fi thought it would be like. A lot of older movies, TV shows, and books

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