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There have actually been conferences discussing this. Did the scifi wroters predict the future or did someone who read about something, decide later to see if they could make that happen.
ANd IIRC, they decided it was a combination of both.
But look also at the things they go wrong. Asimov in his books "Caves of Steel" predicts an Earth civilization where everyone lives in huge covered cities. With little privacy and shared services (bathrooms and eating) due to the HUGE population. And the food is all based on yeast, as that is all they can grow enough of.
This HUGE population that will cause this to occur??? A wold population of nearly 8 billion, and for New York (where the book is set) a massive population of 20 million.
To save you looking it up, the Earths population is nearly 7 billion now. And the New York urban area has a population of nearly 19 million.
Oh, and this massive population of his, was not for several hundred more years.
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