Raymond Chandler invented Google

Crime writer Raymond Chandler, the author of The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and many other novels and stories, apparently had a vision of Google when he wrote a letter to his agent in 1953:

The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google had told me it wasn't enough. He was right.

Chandler was mocking science fiction, but he was clearly channeling the future when he wrote this: Google gave him the right answer.