Here's a precursor to RoboCop: "Automaton police office, and real offenders."  Illustrated by George Cruikshank, from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

Here's a precursor to Ram Dass's "be here now," from Canadian Grocer, 1898.

Here's a precursor to the film Strange Days, from an 1892 ad.

This undead fisherman predates Dracula's debut in 1897.  From Holiday Handbooks by Percy Lindley, 1885.

Here's a precursor to Wikipedia: 1921's self-revising encyclopedia.

Here's a precursor to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion's changing portraits, from The Maid of London Bridge by Somerville Gibney, 1892.  The caption reads, "Ah! thou are right, Lucy, it is changing, and growing stern and angry."

Here's a precursor to The Mirror Has Two Faces, from Pictures and Songs for Little Children, 1888.  The text reads, "The face in the hollow.  The face in the spoon back."