Set in the far-flung future of 2052, Eidos' influential cyberpunk game Deus Ex (and the sequels that followed) have always been looking forwards in terms of human evolution and technology, getting in on the ground floor of transhumanism before we'd even come up with the likes of Google Glass, let alone before we started mocking people for wearing Google Glass. For all of its peering into the futuristic abyss of the singularity though, it's one of Deus Ex's more contemporary predictions that came true. 9/11 was such a momentous and tragic event of the modern age that you can barely go online without stumbling across a half-dozen conspiracy theories related to it - especially in pop culture - and plenty of tin foil hat enthusiasts point to predictions of the Twin Towers attack in various media. In the case of Deus Ex, the World Trade Centre was noticeably absent from the game's New York City skyline; this was actually due to technical limitations, but Eidos wrote into the game's story that the buildings had been destroyed in a terrorist attack. The game came out in 2000, a good year before the real-life attacks that brought the Twin Towers down. Pretty spooky if you ask us.
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