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* No one expected women to actually achieve legal equality with men.
* No one really expected [[The Apartheid Era|apartheid]] to [[Velvet Revolution|end peacefully]].
* No one <ref>Barring the ''very'' clever [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA477&dq=%22It+will+only+be+necessary+to+carry+an+inexpensive+instrument+not+bigger+than%22&pg=PA477&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Wireless%20of%20the%20future&f=false Nikola Tesla] and some ''very'' clever early [[Science Fiction]] writers like [https://web.archive.org/web/20140515194710/http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html E. M. Forster]</ref> expected [[The Internet]]. Even when it came, [[It Will Never Catch On|few thought it would become so ubiquitous]].<ref>[[Technology Marches On]] can turn any futuristic [[Science Fiction]] story written in the 1950's or earlier into [[Zeerust]] with the mention of punch cards, vacuum tubes or manned satellites. The opposite effect can be incurred by having manned colonies outside Earth.</ref>
* No one expected the [[Middle East Uprising 2011|upheavals in the Greater Middle East]].
* No one really expected [[Osama Bin Laden]] to be found; many people thought he was dead already. Earlier, no one expected Osama Bin Laden to attack the West.
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* The original ''[[Strider Hiryu|Strider]]'' assumes that the Soviet Union will still be around by the year 2048. In fact, the first stage is set in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, a former Soviet state now known as Kazakhstan.
* ''[[Harpoon]]'' was around ''before'' the Soviet Union collapsed. After it happened, there was a big scramble to create new scenarios that weren't obsolete. Of course, since it was a simulation the existing ones were still developed.
* ''[[Aerobiz]]'': The second entry in the series predicted supersonic airliners (despite being banned overland since the 1970s due to damage caused by sonic booms) and 1000+ passenger super-jumbo jets in the 2000's, missing the large scale move from regular airliners to smaller, more fuel-efficient Regional Jets for most small and medium-sized routes. It also failed to portray a large number of very prominent cities that cropped up in the late 1990's & early 2000's, such as Dubai, and the terrible economic impact that the 2000's would have on airlines around the world.
** On a lesser scale, it also predicted the next Airbus airliner would be the A350 (which is only now being conceptualized), and that McDonnell-Douglas would produce the early concept "MD-12" (a stretched MD-11) and still be an independent manufacturer.
** Work on a device that would eliminate the damage of supersonic flight began in 2016, a year ''after'' the game ends, and only reached air testing stages in April 2022.
== Web Originals ==
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* [[wikipedia:Sergei Krikalyov|Sergei Kirkalyov]] and [[wikipedia:Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (cosmonaut)|Alexander Volkov]] earned the nickname of "the last Soviet citizens" because they served on the Mir space station while the Soviet Union collapsed, and returned three months later on 25 March 1992.
* [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Predictions of Soviet collapse|gives us a list of predictions]] of the fall of the U.S.S.R. There were a decent amount of predictions in the Cold War era, however, it didn't seem to have much of an effect on pop culture at the time (otherwise, this trope wouldn't have been in effect). And remember that just because someone predicted the U.S.S.R. would fall, that doesn't mean they were right. Many predictions described the Soviet Union ending in ways that were completely different from what eventually happened. Some of the predictions were mutually exclusive (if one was right, the other must have been wrong).
* For [https://web.archive.org/web/20100609080105/http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/soldiersurr.htm some Japanese] [[wikipedia:Japanese holdout|soldiers]], WWII didn't end until the 1970s.
* If you listen to enough political [[Talk Show|talk radio]], you'll occasionally hear a caller talk about the dangers of the Soviet Union and Soviet communism in the present tense.
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