> a lot of the golden age sci fi authors were good guessers.

A while back I bumped into a sort-of fraud wherein someone would create a Twitter account and predict that someone die or something would happen on a given date, but for every date, i.e. "mieseratte will die on 2019-05-11", "mieseratte will die on 2019-05-12" and so on. Then when the even occurs they delete all tweets but the now correct tweet.

Whenever I bump into these "So and so predicted EVENT N number of years ago" I just sort-of assume that if I search hard enough I can find a book that "predicts" most broad scenarios.