Throughout history, television and movies have portrayed the future as being a place full of flying cars and jetpacks.
Science fiction writer Nick Sagan's (son of world-famous scientist Carl Sagan) book "You Call This The Future?" is an "expedition in search of the future," providing clear explanations of today's cutting-edge technologies in transportation, computers, weapons and domestic life to find where science fiction has become reality.
Some Examples Of Technologies Promised To Us
• Jetpack ("Buck Rogers")
• Flying cars ("The Jetsons")
• Transporters ("Star Trek")
• Cyborgs ("The Six Million Dollar Man")
• Artificial intelligence ("2001:A Space Odyssey")
• Remote-control robots ("Lost in Space")
• Cryonics ("Vanilla Sky")
• Warp drives ("Star Wars")
• Time travel ("Back to the Future")
• Robot pets ("Dr. Who")
• Cybernetics ("Galactic Patrol")
• Space tourism ("A Fall of Moondust")
• Wormholes ("Stargate")