Talking Science Fiction

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Would we have smart phones without science fiction? Would we have ever dared to explore our galaxy, to dream of life on other planets? Probably not. Science Fiction has given birth to some of our greatest technologies, our greatest works of literature and, of course, some of our greatest films. Milt is joined in studio by one of the genres greatest critics and scholars, Gary K. Wolfe of Roosevelt University and Dr. Andy Johnson, a gentleman at the forefront of bringing some of the technologies of our dreams and turning them into reality who presides over the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. How long before we have our holodeck?

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