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- How Predictable Is Fiction? https://tedunderwood.com/2020/07/05/how-predictable-is-fiction/ 16 comments
- Octavia Butler’s science fiction predicted the world we live in https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/arts/octavia-butler-vision-kindred.html 2 comments
- Predictions for this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-0402-biblioracle-20170328-column.html 12 comments books
- Our fictional pundit predicted more correct primary results than Nate Silver did https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/09/our-fictional-pundit-predicted-more-correct-primary-results-than-nate-silver-did/ 175 comments politics
- 84% Accurate: researchers have developed an algorithm that predicts sales of fiction books remarkably well based on an analysis of the first 1000 words http://www.bustle.com/articles/12343-researchers-find-an-algorithm-to-predict-book-success-like-a-magic-8-ball-for-fiction-sales 3 comments books
- 1950s Western Predicted a Border Wall From a Fictional Con Man Named Trump https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/trackdown-1950s-tv-show-border-wall-trump-1203106000/ 56 comments politics
- The Shockwave Rider - A review of John Brunner's classic science fiction book and a look at how all its predictions turned out http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2007/06/shockwave-rider.html 3 comments netsec
- Stephen Fry's warning for the web - "prepare for the internet of the future, or face the worst of science fiction's predictions." http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40076701 229 comments technology
- FICTION: FourFourTwo tries to predict what will happen in the remaining weeks of the Premier League season http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/fourfourtwoview/archive/2013/03/28/premier-league-prediction-2012-13.aspx 9 comments soccer
- British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke gives a reporter a remarkably accurate prediction of the internet and personal computer...in 1974. http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bv=OIRZebE8O84&feature=player_embedded 9 comments technology
- Four Ways ‘Oryx and Crake’ Predicted the Future - Margaret Atwood’s book is fiction, but the cutting-edge research she writes about is real. http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/four-ways-oryx-and-crake-predicted-the-future/ 7 comments books
- The 100-year-old fiction that predicted today - Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the dystopian horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210902-the-100-year-old-fiction-that-predicted-today 10 comments books
- [OC] Fact or Fiction: Is College Free Throw Percentage Better Than College Three Point Percentage at Predicting Three Point Shooting Success In The NBA ? https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6n42wy/oc_fact_or_fiction_is_college_free_throw/ 86 comments nba
- In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-are-more-likely-to-reoffend-1.12672 64 comments science
- A study in PLOS One suggests that the type of fiction a person reads affects their social cognition differently. Literary fiction was associated with increased attributional complexity and accuracy in predicting social attitudes, while popular fiction was linked to increased egocentric bias. https://www.psypost.org/2020/10/reading-literary-versus-popular-fiction-promotes-different-socio-cognitive-processes-study-suggests-58381?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reading-literary-versus-popular-fiction-promotes-different-socio-cognitive-processes-study-suggests 35 comments science
- In a world where the olympic games, once a celebration of peace, have been hijacked by a siege mentality with batteries of rockets on apartment roofs, 36,000 troops...and drones we must realise that the dystopian future predicted by so much science fiction has come true. http://stopwarcoalition.org/irene-doutneys-speech-to-rally-for-assange-wikileaks-15-july-2012/ 3 comments politics