8 Science-Fiction Predictions that Turned Out True (2 of 5)

Knight Rider — K.I.T.T — Voice Activated Cars

K.I.T.T from the 1980 TV action series was a voice-activated talking car that was fully autonomous and could do things like sense nearby obstacles. Okay, so we haven’t completely reached the same level of technology quite yet, but these days even standard cars can alert you about cars that are behind and to the side of you, voice activation is definitely a thing, and it’s only a matter of time before real cars can do a lot what K.I.T.T. could by using radar and GPS technology. 

Minority Report — Swiping and Zooming through screens

When the movie “Minority Report” came out in 2002, it felt super futuristic indeed. It predicted that in 2054, the technology to swipe multiple screens and zoom in and out of them would be standard. They certainly weren’t wrong, but the film creators probably had no idea that this would happen a mere 5 years after the film was released with the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, which had pretty much all of these capabilities.