8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction

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Sarah Kessler
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8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction

A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility cloak seems today. But while technologies like the submarine, bomb, radar and tank once captured the imagination of science fiction authors, science has brought them to the mainstream awareness. Researchers are continuing to catch up with imagination, and it's only a matter of time before the technologies we still consider fiction meet a similar fate.

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