That list is pretty anemic.
How about landing on the moon? Or space travel itself.
The list of what SF imagined has become our present, and will be our future.
The main thing that SF in the past has taught is that a large part of our future depends on technology, and that its a hopeful future.
A lot of fiction, and real life now-a-days teaches the exact opposite.
"Only one earth" is a prime example, just as we're on the verge of expanding into the rest of the universe. Bah!
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