18 Technologies Straight Out of Sci-Fi That Became Real
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It can be easy to forget sometimes that we live in the future. Sure, we may not have flying cars or replicators — yet — but an average day in your life would be beyond the wildest dreams of someone living 40, 30, or even 20 years ago. They were still struggling to convert their CD collections to MP3 and learn T9 texting. Who could have possibly imagined… well… all this?
It turns out, a lot of people could, and they did. The science-fiction canon is full of books, movies, and TV shows featuring devices and technologies that seemed futuristic at the time but now are mostly just annoying to keep charged. That's why u/hiatusart asked r/AskReddit, “What used to be a science fiction but [is] now a real thing?”