A Time of Magic

Not so long ago science fiction was placed firmly in the 21st century and it was a wonderous world with flying cars, spaceships flitting around the stars, robots to do your housework and so on.

Yet, we’re well into the 21st century now and none of that flashy stuff is available yet. OK, so we’ve got a space station up there but we’ve not even set foot on Mars yet never mind taken flight to the stars. Robots are pretty boring pieces of equipment too and certainly don’t walk around like they did in the films.

Actually, we have quite a lot of the 23rd century technology knocking around: the mobile phone was a communicator in Star Trek, the talking computers appeared in the early 1980s and disappeared soon after, the memory chips that Mr Spock always seemed to be shuffling are our SD RAM cards. It’s just that we don’t have the really interesting stuff.

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