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Science fiction makes a lot of predictions about the future — that’s really the point, isn’t it? The best science fiction looks at the future, trying to see where we are headed and what it will be like when we get there. Some authors are so good at this it seems as though they actually are able to peer into the future (even if only through a scanner darkly) and tell stories of what is to come. But even the best sci-fi has, over the years, gotten a lot wrong about what was the future when it was written.

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1. Walk through X-ray airport scanners — Who can forget the classic scene in Total Recall where Ahnuld walks through the scanner at the space port and we get a full x-ray of his body? Well, for some reason, people didn’t think this technology was quite as cool when it was brought to an airport security line near them this year. Maybe it was the the thought that someone in a dark room is looking at virtual nudie pictures of us. Maybe it was the increase in radiation bombarding our bodies. Whatever it was, many want to leave this advance behind in 2010.

2. Video phones [...]

3. Alien Life [...]

4. 3D TVs [...]

5. Big Brother [...]

6. Telepathy [...]

7. A Permanent Space Station [...]

8. Tablet Computers [...]

9. Web 2.0 [...]

10. Cyber Wars [...]

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1. Flying Cars — This is a popular one to gripe about, but I’ve got bad news for you: it ain’t ever gonna happen. It’s not that flying cars are technically impossible, but they are socially impossible. I have little doubt that if our best and brightest applied themselves to the task, we could mass-produce personal travel devices that would allow us to rise off the ground and zoom through the air just like George Jetson. But imagine a world where the millions of cars on the road are replaced by millions of flying cars, or, should I say, millions of potential flying bombs. Even if we were to create some system that automatically forces cars to avoid buildings, how long before some moron with a beef against a particular government, philosophy, or just against sanity in general hacks that system and heads towards the closest sky scraper in a flying car packed with C4 explosive? No thanks, I’ll stick to the ground.

2. A Moon Base [...]

3. Anti-Aging Pills [...]

4. Trips to Jupiter [...]

5. Nuclear Holocaust [...]

6. Virtual Reality [...]

7. AI Robot Butlers & Self-Driving Cars [...]

8. Computer Overlords [...]

9. Commercial Supersonic Air Travel [...]

10. Cheap, Clean, and Unlimited Energy [...]