Sci-Fi Inspires Engineers To Build Our Future : NPR

Search engines, virtual worlds, the Internet — ever get the feeling you’re living in a science fiction fantasy? Well indeed you are. For more than a century, inventors have been driven to create what sci-fi writers have boldly imagined before.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129333703&ft=1

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