Quiz: When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
Quiz: When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
Flying drones inspect hard-to-reach infrastructure. Celebrities travel to outer space. And ordinary folk "meet" with co-workers half a world away in real time.
More often than not, Hollywood offers a tantalizing view of a future filled with humans flying in cars, working alongside intelligent machines, and living in sleek cities whose buildings manipulate light and images. Screenplays and novels present utopias and dystopias alike, where we live on a planet filled with unimaginable technology presented as a natural part of how ordinary people travel, work, and live. Is there anything unobtainable when it comes to technology? Take the quiz below:
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