Incredible historical predictions that actually came true

Nikola Tesla predicted Wi-fi and mobile phones in 1909

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Science fiction author Jules Verne imagines a man on the Moon in 1865

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Ray Bradbury foretold earbuds in 1953

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Nostradamus predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666

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Edward Bellamy envisaged the debit card in 1888

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Mark Twain forecast his own death in 1909

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Robert Boyle predicted organ transplants in the 1660s

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Arthur C. Clark imagined the iPad in 1968

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John Brunner predicted the 2010 American president in 1968

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