I just stumbled across this website: http://www.dystopiatracker.com/. It's basically a collaborative effort to gather dystopian predictions from fiction (be it literature, movies or whatever) and link them to events/inventions/laws/institutions that exist is the real world. I.e. Orwell's omniscient Big Brother from 1984 -> NSA surveillance revelations.

I find it rather interesting, although the site seems to be quite slow at times. What would you come up with?

I find myself thinking about the superstorms fromTransmetropolitan more frequently. Other things about that book are good candidates, but that's no suprise given the attention Warren Ellis put on such things.

I just read some cards, it seems like a big mash-up of what is said in "various" fictional works. But I don't understand what is the catch ? My first guess is that I could use that website to find new books to read, or not read. But then, what is the point of the "realisations" ?
In Asimov books for instance, the impressive .... visions (don't have a better word), are impressive not because of the boldness or the wow factor, but because the road(s) leading to these 'realizations' is(are) plausible and worrying ( I have the 'robots' in mind), in a perspective anchored nowadays.

Bottom line, it's indeed a shame this website is that slow.

Oh, good, what amounts to a revisionist historian's blog of sci-fi-prophecy which also allows any random nutjob to throw in their favorite conspiracy theory. I see no way this ends badly. [url=of course if it stays relatively unknnown maybe it wont all get screwed up by the tinfoil hat legion. A man can dream][/url]

AFAIK the project was started by some respected journalists. I hope they settle this problems and find some way to promote quality entries. And speed up the site...