kuro5hin.org || Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You Here’s an article that, in sad form, bitches and whines that science has not delivered what sci-fi (not to be confused with SF) has promised. Why science should deliver such things as flying cars and cold fusion is beyond me, since scientists themselves never suggested that such devices were necessary, or feasible. The flying car, for goodness sakes, is a film trope that first appeared in Fritz Lang’s 1926 sf film Metropolis. It was a damned visual effect that was simply meant to create a startling image of a futuristic …