Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You

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"Where are the flying cars we were promised?" Avery Brooks is quite excited, and not in a good way. In a commercial for IBM, he rails about how disappointed society is because all the great technological advances we were promised a few decades ago still aren't here. No flying cars, no space travel, no giant domed cities, no anti-gravity belts, no warp drive ...aside from the remote control, mankind has not made a significant advance in technology in the last 50 years. The next 50 years promises to be different. In this article, I will examine disruptive technologies that will likely impact us in the next half century, some of which we've been waiting for impatiently, others we've barely conceived of yet. [Kuro5hin.org]