Futuristic predictions that came true in 2012

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1. A Cyborg Competes Against Able-Bodied Athletes at the Olympics
2. NASA Starts to Work on a Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
3. Scientists Enhance the Intelligence of Primates with a Chip
4. The Earth Experiences its First True Superstorm

   Back in 1999, Art Bell and Whitley Strieber published a book titled The Coming Global Superstorm. It predicted that global warming would eventually result in sudden and catastrophic climatic effects — including the onset of unusually large storms. Now, 13 years later — although some are still loathe to admit it — the Atlantic Ocean experienced its first bona fide superstorm. Sandy was a colossal hurricane that occupied a space measuring 1.8 million square miles (4.6 million square kilometers), and stretched from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, and into Canada and New England. It may have been the first, but it certainly won't be the last.

5. The World's First Cybernetic Hate Crime Occurs at a McDonalds in France
6. Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream
7. Researchers Create a Robot With Legs That Can Run Faster Than any Human
8. The First Successful Commercial Cargo Delivery to Space Goes Off Without a Hitch
9. An Electric Car is the Year's Best
10. Doctors Communicate With a Man in a Coma
11. The First Large-Scale Geoengineering Project is Detected Off Canada's West Coast
12. A Child Attends School By Sending a Robot in His Place
13. A Paralyzed Woman Controls a Robotic Arm Using Only Her Mind
14. Self-Driving Cars Become Legal in Several States
15. Scientists Create an Artificial Retina
16. Researchers Create the First Complete Computer Model of a Living Organism[/list=1]