8 Times Books Creepily Predicted The Future

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard, for an infinite amount of time, must eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. The point of the theorem is to show how given infinite time, all possibilities must eventually be fulfilled. In many ways, the same goes for prediction. If enough people make predictions, surely some of those predictions must come true. This in itself isn't fascinating. What's fascinating is the specificity of the predictions, not whether or not they're correct. Throughout history, many books have been praised as having correctly predicted the future. Religious texts like the bible, for example, vaguely predict lasting violence around the world. But there are some books that contain much more specific predictions. Predictions so specific that they cross the line from impressive to legitimately eerie, as if certain people from the past were able to form some connection with a world they'd never live to see.