1. 1990
   2013
2. 2062

“The Jetsons” was set in 1962, so creators tried to show the future as it might be 100 years later.

1. self-tying shoelaces
   video games played without using controllers
2. home fusion generators

There are a lot of urban legends surrounding the predictions in the “Back to the Future” movies, but several of them, including video games without controllers, have actually come true.

1. H.P. Lovecraft
   Stephen King
2. Clive Barket

King’s story was originally published in 1981. While it predicts teleportation as the preferred means of travel, there’s an unpleasant wrinkle that makes itself known in the story.

1. “Star Trek: First Contact”
   “Star Trek”
2. “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”

In "Star Trek IV: The Vogage Home," Dr. McCoy encounters a patient who tells him that she's on dialysis. McCoy gives her the pill and mumbles about being back in the Dark Ages.

1. microchips
   bar codes
2. tattoos

In May 2012, Moon stated that people should be bar coded at birth for easier identification.

1. Carl David Anderson
   Albert Einstein
2. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Einstein was a genius, but he didn’t foresee the use of nuclear energy to power homes, ships and submarines.

1. Henry Ford
   Cornelius Vanderbilt
2. Andrew Carnegie

Henry Ford’s assembly line principles are applied to all aspects of life in the book, and Ford Day is celebrated, complete with tiny wooden “T”s to represent the Model T.

1. “Zombieland”
   “The Walking Dead”
2. “Sleepers”

“The Walking Dead” TV show is based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series of the same title, which debuted in 2003.

1. 30 days
   58 days
2. 69 days

In 1992, Richard Presley scored a Guinness World Record for "longest time spent living underwater" when he spent 69 days and 19 minutes in an underwater module in a Florida lagoon.

1. Nobody liked it.
   It crumbled and got stuck in the spacecraft’s delicate instrumentation.
2. NASA determined that ice cream should not be included on spaceflights because it’s not healthy.

Now it’s sold in museums and stores everywhere, but the astronauts didn’t care much for freeze-dried ice cream. Today, regular ice cream is taken aboard spacecraft or the space station.

1. 1915
   1928
2. 1943

The first known mention of a jet pack was in the 1928 pulp magazine Amazing Stories, a serialization of what would become the novel “Skylark in Space.”

1. “A Trip to the Moon”
   “Flash Gordon”
2. “Metropolis”

The Maschinenmensch (German for “machine-man”) of "Metropolis" is a bronzed metal robot with a very curvy female body and a creepy blank stare.

1. 1908
   1932
2. 1938

Although it’s impossible to know how long the phrase has been around, the first print example of it was in a 1938 newspaper column about the panic following H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast.

1. Sirius
   Alpha Centauri
2. Vega

In the TV show universe, the Robinsons are selected as the first space colonists from the U.S. Their mission, launching in the "future" year 1997, is to colonize a planet that orbits the star Alpha Centauri.

1. using the ocean as a toilet
   eating roadkill
2. urinating, filtering the urine, then drinking it

Yep, he drank his own (filtered) pee. But he's in good company: As of 2008, the International Space Station has had a Water Recovery System, designed to process about 93 percent of the astronauts’ sweat and urine into drinking water.

1. roast chicken
   pizza
2. steak and potatoes

Food pellets or pills are a mainstay of sci-fi -- apparently we'll want our food in concentrated form in the future. Leeloo's feat – a whole roasted chicken – is one of the most impressive, though.

1. Isaac Asimov
   John Wilkins
2. Arthur C. Clarke

John Wilkins, a bishop who was around in the mid-1600s, predicted future moon colonies in his book “A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet.”

1. 1949
   1959
2. 1969

Many people think that Tang was invented for the NASA space program, but the truth is General Foods started selling it to the public in 1959. It didn’t become popular until after it was used in Project Mercury in 1962.

1. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
   "The Time Machine"
2. "Time After Time"

In "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells wrote of two races encountered by the Time Traveller in 802,791 A.D. The Eloi were weak and lived a life of ease, while the Morlocks did all the work.

1. depictions of the future as seen from the past
   depictions of the past as seen from the future
2. both of the above

Retro-futurism can mean two different things: Pre-1960s projections of the future or a current re-imagining of a past that contained futuristic elements. Steampunk is an example of the latter.