Fantastic Promises Made By Sci-Fi (And How They Worked Out)

We took a look at some of the biggest promises science fiction has made and compared them to our actual reality. As it turns out, a lot of sci-fi predictions were fairly on the nose -- but they didn't think through the full repercussions of the super-shiny tech they were teasing us with.

So, while we do have a lot of the stuff sci-fi teased us with, it's more of a monkey's paw type of situation. For example: