Future Foreseen.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brian Clegg's "Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future" - Brief article - Book review

Faster-than-light travel or communication, A.I., humanoid android companions, time travel, force fields, and teleportation all continue to elude real-world scientists and engineers, despite what we were promised as 20th century readers of science fiction. (As for cyborgs and cloaking devices, we seem to be getting there.)

Brian Clegg's Ten Billion Tomorrows (St. Martin's) is subtitled How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future, but it ends up being more about how reality frequently fails to catch up to science...