the future is now

Via The Millions, a story of a new wave sci-gi novel written in 1969, which accurately predicted the sate of the world in 2010.

In Stand on Zanzibar, novelist John Brunner predicted such things as the fall of the USSR as the nation's enemy, and the rise of China as our competitor, with war raged not with arms, but economics and technology. He predicted AirTravel and in-flight entertainment, DVRs, school shootings, the rise of terrorism and the destruction of buildings, satellite national news networks, the stigmatization of tobacco smoking and the acceptance of marijuana smoking, gay rights, the decline of "traditional" marriage, the increasing success of black Americans in the midst of continued racial tensions, and even a President named "Obami."

Pretty cool.