Sci-Fi's Broken Promises
...Science has delivered; the problem is that science is so scientific. Research progresses in such a linear way you could scream. Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face—they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.
A Q&A with Daniel H. Wilson, Author of "How to Survive a Robot Uprising." Rather interesting.
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