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Science Fiction Accuracy Report
Which predictions came true, who saw furthest, and what's still waiting to happen — plotted from the year imagined to today, filterable by category, decade, source and stage.
Prediction Timeline
Every sci-fi concept with verified, real-world commercial progress — line runs from the year imagined to today.
| Work | Predicted Concepts |
|---|---|
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The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series) 1977 |
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Blade Runner 1982 |
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ALF (TV series) 1986 |
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Ghost in the Shell 1995 |
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Ghost in the Shell 2 1999 |
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Her 2013 |
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Limitless (TV series) 2015 |
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Demonic (2021 film) 2021 |
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Black Widow (2021 film) 2021 |
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Eternals (film) 2021 |
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Ron's Gone Wrong 2021 |
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Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021 |
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Don't Look Up 2021 |
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The Suicide Squad (film) 2021 |
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Belle (2021 film) 2021 |
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In the Earth 2021 |
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Outside the Wire 2021 |
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021 |
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Dune (2021 film) 2021 |
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After Yang 2021 |
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Infinite (film) 2021 |
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines 2021 |
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Finch (film) 2021 |
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Godzilla vs. Kong 2021 |
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Voyagers (film) 2021 |
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Stowaway (2021 film) 2021 |
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Chaos Walking (film) 2021 |
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Free Guy 2021 |
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The Tomorrow War 2021 |
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Reminiscence (2021 film) 2021 |
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Visionary Leaderboard
Ranked by Visionary Score - a blend of how far the prediction has actually progressed commercially, how many years ago it was made, and how widely the work was seen.
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Blade Runner
1982
85/100
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ALF (TV series)
1986
84/100
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The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)
1977
83/100
| # | Work | Year | Visionary Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Blade Runner
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1982 |
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| 2 |
ALF (TV series)
|
1986 |
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| 3 |
The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)
|
1977 |
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| 4 |
Ghost in the Shell
|
1995 |
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| 5 |
Her
|
2013 |
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| 6 |
Black Widow (2021 film)
|
2021 |
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| 7 |
Godzilla vs. Kong
|
2021 |
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| 8 |
Dune (2021 film)
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2021 |
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| 9 |
Don't Look Up
|
2021 |
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| 10 |
Eternals (film)
|
2021 |
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| 11 |
Free Guy
|
2021 |
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| 12 |
Chaos Walking (film)
|
2021 |
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| 13 |
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
|
2021 |
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| 14 |
Space Jam: A New Legacy
|
2021 |
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| 15 |
The Tomorrow War
|
2021 |
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| 16 |
Belle (2021 film)
|
2021 |
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| 17 |
Outside the Wire
|
2021 |
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| 18 |
Ron's Gone Wrong
|
2021 |
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| 19 |
Infinite (film)
|
2021 |
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| 20 |
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
|
2021 |
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Most Surprising Predictions
Hand-picked by our editors, refreshed quarterly.
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Star Trek: The Original Series
Handheld wireless communicators
Flip phones and modern smartphones closely mirror the show's communicator design decades later.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Flat, handheld tablet computers used for reading news
Tablet devices became mainstream consumer electronics roughly four decades after the film.
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Neuromancer
A globally networked "cyberspace" people jack into
The commercial internet and immersive online spaces emerged within a decade of the novel.
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Minority Report
Gesture-based computer interfaces
Multi-touch and motion-sensing interfaces (smartphones, motion controllers) followed within years.
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Fahrenheit 451
Tiny in-ear wireless listening devices
Wireless earbuds became a mainstream consumer product category decades later.
Predictions Still Waiting
Concepts with no verified real-world commercial progress yet - ranked by cultural reach, so the most widely-seen unrealized predictions surface first.
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Mind-Mesh Collective Consciousness
Eternals (film) (2021)
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Proton beam based particle containment system
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
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Ghost trap electromagnetic containment unit
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
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Digital Identity Unmasking Software
Belle (2021 film) (2021)
Frequently Asked Questions
The Visionary Score (0-100) weighs how far ahead of real-world commercial progress a work's predictions landed, combined with how many of its predicted concepts have since started showing up in the market.
These are commercialisation stages for a predicted concept: Emerging means early signals exist but no real product yet, Early Market means real products exist but adoption is still niche, and Mainstream means the concept is now a normal part of everyday technology.
A concept only leaves "Not Yet Emerged" once real-world patent, academic, developer, or editorial signals start accumulating around it. Some sci-fi predictions genuinely have no commercial momentum behind them yet.
Verified predictions and their source works are discovered from Wikidata and Wikipedia and cross-referenced against IdeaCrawl's tracked trends. "Most Surprising Predictions" is editorially curated and refreshed quarterly rather than algorithmically generated.