How many have seen fiction become a reality over the last 50 or 60 years?

Just read very old Popular Science magazines and see just what was fiction and is now a reality.How many have seen fiction become a reality over the last 50 or 60 years?
It's really amazing. About everything in sci fi has been done, other than faster than light travel, and time travel.

And I have a feeling those will come eventually.
To say nothing of visionaries like A.C Clarke, and Jules Verne - maybe the most visionary science fiction writer ever! (And I loved the recent Tom Cruise War of the Worlds movie, for the record).

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How many have seen fiction become a reality over the last 50 or 60 years?
Well, I'm still waiting for my flying cars, or cars that drive themselves. Same with space tourism (not just billionaires paying to go along).



Basically, if you look back to the 60's when I was a kid, not a whole lot has changed. We still pick up the phone and call people. We still hop in the car and drive places, using the same controls, roads and traffic laws. We still build and live in the same kind of houses. We still watch TV, in color! Most of us won't live to be 100 years old still.



The only difference is that those types of things have evolved a bit. The TV's are bigger and sharper. The phone goes with us now. Cars are safer and more comfortable. Medical science will keep you healthier longer, but in the end most of us still die in their 70s.



Really, the only really big change is the information technology. Computers and the Internet. A wonderful change it is, but if I were magically transported back to the 60's, I'd adapt pretty quickly.How many have seen fiction become a reality over the last 50 or 60 years?
scary....



Star Trek gave us cell phone... floppy disks.... lasers.... space-age fabrics....