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10 Works of Retrofuturist Fiction That Were Wrong

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This is a Power Grid of all our other favorite books and movies that imagine the future for us, and how wrong some of them have turned out to be.  We’re going to pass judgment on 10 works of fiction that tried to predict the future… and didn’t quite make it.

The central conceit of Jules Verne 's 1863 novel about Paris in the 1960's is that humanity, despite its state of remarkable technological advancement, has devolved culturally into a state where... Read on...
"War. War never changes." With Ron Perlman's growled voice, so launched one of the most beloved post-apocalyptic series in video game history. The  Fallout  games  posit an... Read on...
The Running Man was one of the great dances to come out of the 80's, and - What? Not the dance? The Richard Bachman dystopian thriller? Do over! The Running Man is a Richard Bachman (also known as... Read on...
This British series began in 1975, and it showed us a vision of 1999 that luckily did not even come close to coming true. First of all, the series began with nuclear waste, left on the moon by... Read on...
In another five years we will have reached 2015, the year that Marty McFly travelled to in order to save his future family in Back to the Future, Part II . The movie was released in 1989. Sure,... Read on...
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