7 Science Fiction Predictions That Came True

2. Lab Meat

And the chemists' triumphs of synthesis, which could now give us an entirely artificial food, remain largely in abeyance because it is so much more pleasant and interesting to eat natural produce and to grow such things upon the soil.

- The World Set Free, H.G. Wells, 1914

With protein consumption going up, and livestock reaching unsustainable levels, the production of in vitro meat could well be the answer to the burger shortages of the future.

Writing in 1914, the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells envisages a future in which artificially grown meat is not only available, but preferablee.

In 2013, the world's first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a news conference in London. Future predictions for the in vitro meat industry predict that lab-grown meat could indeed be preferable to natural meat as it would be possible to fortifying it with additional nutrients that do not occur naturally and would, of course, be cruelty-free.