10 Tech Innovations Shaping Our Future

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• Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ (1888): Predicted credit cards in a fictional cashless society.
• H.G. Wells’ ‘The Land Ironclads’ (1903): Envisioned modern tanks over a decade before their creation.
• Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1735): Coincidentally described Mars’ two moons,Phobos and Deimos,long before their discovery in 1877.
• Hugo Gernsback’s ‘Ralph 124C 41+’ (1911): Forecast radar-like technology decades ahead of its invention during WWII.
• H.G. Wells’ ‘When the Sleeper Wakes’ (1899): Conceptualized automatic doors over half a century prior to their widespread use.
• Rokeya sakhawat Hossain’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (1905): Imagined solar power and video calling technology within a feminist utopian novella set in “Ladyland.”
• H.G. Wells’ ‘The World Set Free’ (1914): Predicted atomic bombs and nuclear chain reactions, inspiring future scientific works on warfare technologies like radiation effects post-detonation.
• **E.M Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops'(1909): screen-based mass isolation presaging Zoom calls surroundings seen today.

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