Great list, but not all that surprising. It's the job of science fiction to be speculative and one of the things that can make sci-fi great is when the fiction

Great list, but not all that surprising. It's the job of science fiction to be speculative and one of the things that can make sci-fi great is when the fictional technology is plausible, fits the science we know even if we can't go there yet. If sci-fi authors are looking at science and imagining where technology will go, it's only natural that tech will catch up to fiction in a lot of cases. I'll bet you could find a lot more than ten instances in the history of sci-fi.