How come this guy isn't doing Magic the Gathering art?

Ok then...

Not a question, but you have electric submarines listed as the 1960's. Diesel/Electric boats didn't really achieve Verne's vision (they existed well before the 60's) but the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, definitely did. It came to fruition in the 1950's. Admiral Hyman Rickover successfully petitioned…

Isabelle, cool chart! How about the Taser, which its inventor based on Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle? Tom Swift books were truly influential science fiction - Steve Wozniak also cites them as an early inspiration for his own endeavors.

Interesting, but a lot of errors. Off the top of my head: electric submarines were in use since at least the Holland in 1900; the "discovery" of From the Earth to the Moon should be Apollo 8 in 1968, not Apollo 11 in 1969 (especially since Apollo 8 more closely matched the mission from Verne's book); and Arthur C.…

This is great but Jules Verne predicted many more things such as computers and air conditioning (the guy was a time traveler, for sure). Just read The Day of an American Journalist in 2889 (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/…). There are even some concepts similar to Vactrains.

Thanks...again...great chart. I don't think I've seen such conveniently packaged list of the glaring holes in my SF reading list.

Fantastic, engaging chart.

Not to mention the actual discovery of waterbeds was in 1832. I love Heinlein, but he erroneously gets credit for this one all the time.

While I'm not sure you can call it a prediction or whatever, but Snow Crash has always been one of the best predictions of what online culture would be like in my opinion.

A few errors, nitpics, and debatable items.

There's a typo in the second (right column) occurrence of "in vitro" — it appears as "in virto".

Really awesome chart, hope the get to read all the books one day. I have one question and one comment. The question: what about cloning? I remember an Ursula K. Le Guin short about clones ("Nine Lives") and I wonder who was the first to come up with that (I saw genetic manipulation on the chart, but it's not really…

It's a sacrifice I have to make, to give praise to the Old Ones. Tekeli tekeli ia ia ia.

Fun chart.

It appears it took less and less time to realize the ideas as time went on. 1735 - 1877 (Moons), but then 1990 - 1997 (IBM chess).

Best thing about this chart is that it illustrates that "Stand on Zanzibar" (in addition to being a fantastic novel) is also perhaps the best bit of SF forecasting.

And, thanks to Isabelle for making (and sharing) the chart!