In the days of candles and oil lamps, who'd have guessed that electricity could exist? Who could have dreamed up concepts as far-reaching as flying vast distances in metal tubes, going to the moon, hovering in a helicopter or waging warfare remotely? With coin-operated telephones in boxes on the street, who'd have imagined you could carry a phone and access to the internet around in your pocket?
Science fiction did. Often sci-fi is overtaken by real life: now we have droids, drones and subterranean laboratories, as well as so many other things that were once fiction. We live and die with Big Brother-type monitoring wherever we go, facial recognition and DNA profiling, all of which were first mooted in science fiction.
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