Bulgakovsky Woland very clearly showed the interlocutor the futility of planning his life. A person really looks into the future with suspicious caution: ignorance frightens most of all - and how can one calmly think about a vacation in a month, when in the evening a brick may fall on your head. However, some higher powers endowed with an amazing gift of foresight.
Catastrophe of the titanic
Seer: Morgan Robertson
In 1898, author Morgan Robertson published a novella titled Futility, or the Death of a Titan. The story of the fictional ocean liner Titan was recalled 14 years later, when the events of the book literally came true. The list of coincidences is striking: the invented "Titan" exactly described the real Titanic, also sank in April, and even the death toll in the novel was the same. Do you know what is most surprising? Robertson wrote the book when the Titanic was not even in the project.
Atomic bomb
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The Seer: H. G. Wells
The famous science fiction writer managed to predict the appearance of atomic bombs back in 1914. Wells described uranium grenades in the pages of World Set Free, noting that they would hit people long after the explosion. The Manhattan Project, the one where the first atomic bomb was developed, kicked off 28 years after the book was published.
Wi-Fi
Seer: Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla is known in the scientific community under the playful nickname "the man who invented the 20th century." In 1909, during an interview with the New York Times, Tesla discussed his vision for the future of technology. Among others, it was said about certain radiograms that anyone can receive on a personal device. A little later, in 1926, Tesla foresaw the invention of video communication, very accurately describing the principle of the system. Half a century remained before the appearance of the first mobile phone.
Own death
Seer: Mark Twain
Twain, 74, wrote: "I came with Halley's comet in 1835. It will return again next year and I intend to go with it." No one was even surprised by the death of the writer on April 21, 1910, on the first day of the comet's appearance - Mark Twain was known for unexpected but very accurate predictions.
Travel to the moon
Seer: Jules Verne
Jules Verne wrote the fantastic story "From a Cannon to the Moon" when a man looked at the sky as an unattainable dream. Of course, the sharp mind of a science fiction writer could create an idea that would be implemented only a century later. But how can one explain the detailed description of the sensation of weightlessness, which exactly conveys the real feelings of the astronauts? At that time, scientists did not even theoretically assume that gravity changes in space.
Cold war
Seer: Alexis de Tocqueville
America under Alexis de Tocqueville existed for only 60 years outside the British protectorate and was deeply divided by civil war. Russia, on the other hand, was under the autocratic rule of the emperor: who could have expected that these distant countries would become the main superpowers of the planet and endanger the very existence of mankind with their strife? Alexis de Tocqueville, that's who. The French political scientist published the book Democracy in America in 1840, describing Russia and the United States as two great nations destined to move from different parts of the world to the same goal, holding in their hands the fate of other peoples.
Great London Fire
Seer: Nostradamus
The prophecies of the 16th century French pharmacist and seer Michel de Nostredam are legendary. He is credited with numerous predictions of major world events that happened four centuries after his death. In his book Les Propheties, published in 1555, he wrote: "The blood of the righteous will disappear from London, the city will suddenly catch fire in 66" - and what do you think? The Great Fire of London in 1666 left 70,000 residents homeless, out of a total population of 80,000.
Modern technology
Seer: Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, artist, mathematician, musician - Leonardo da Vinci became the true embodiment of the ideal person of the Renaissance. Was he a seer? Judge for yourself. 400 years before the appearance of the first tank, Leonardo sketched an armored military vehicle, drew a diagram of the parachute 3 centuries before the first jump and, as many believe, encrypted a man's journey to the stars in the famous fresco "The Last Supper".