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I'm a big fan of science fiction, and one of my favorite types can be classified as "future history," in which writers extrapolate a vision of the future from present events. Books like William Gibson's "Neuromancer" and Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash," which predict many aspects of today's "cyber world," are good examples. Philip K Dick foresaw autonomous, talking taxicabs and psychiatrists driven by artificial intelligence. The list goes on.

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