How Close Are We? Bridging The Gap Between Science Fiction and Reality

What do you think of when you hear the phrases "Future Tech" or "Science Fiction Technology?" Humanoid robots walking the streets? Today we're looking at science fiction #technology that was once just a fantasy, that is now part of our daily life. We are also going to take a peek at some of our favorite sci-fi tech, and see how close it is to being a reality. "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." ("My Own View," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) Believe it or not, credit cards were first mentioned in science fiction. You might expect that the individual who envisioned the credit card to be a genius businessman or bank executive of some sort, however the person who first developed the idea of the modern credit card system was a Utopian science fiction author Edward Bellamy.