Dick Tracy used a two-way wristwatch to communicate; smartwatches have been available to the masses for years now. Star Trek replicators were used to create both objects and food on demand, a role that 3D printers are now starting to fill.
Life imitating fiction is hardly new.
But technologists and scientists keep taking this to the next level, bringing technologies that were previously only imagined ever closer to reality. And now researchers are working on creating Iron Man’s ARC fusion reactor.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD