 Although the movie gets many of its predictions of the future wrong  (Ted Kennedy winning the 1984 Presidential election) some are very  close, especially the speculation about a massive earthquake in  California which the movie predicts will happen in 1988 but in fact  happened in 1989. Also the movie predicts that America would be at  war with the middle east and that the war would begin early in the  1990s and in fact, at the beginning of the decade the country was in  the Persian Gulf War.