10. “The First Gentleman” by Patterson/Clinton (Little, Brown and Knopf) 2. “Don’t Believe Everything You Think (expanded ed.)” by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity) ...

Believe it or not, it’s actually the premise of E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, a sci-fi short story published in 1909. And that’s only one of several books that predicted the future.