The document discusses several emerging technologies and innovations that were once considered science fiction but are now becoming realities, including Segways, jetpacks, space elevators, offshore floating cities, bionic limbs, and more advanced computing. It notes how some predictions of the future did not come true as expected but many ideas that were once dismissed are now feasible thanks to technological progress, and the future may bring even more advances than imagined.

1. The Future is Here
(or is It?)
by Ari Herzog
Ignite Boston 6
September 17, 2009

2. IT

6. Oscar Pistorius

16. Donghai Bridge

20. Thanks! Live long and prosper!
All Photos used by permission, including:
Segways: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcamlin/115583127/
Flying man: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/3215868087/
Bucky ball: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-rogers/1335379495/
Seasteading design: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndrasGyorfi.jpg
Donghai Bridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Donghai_Bridge.jpg
Oil platform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_platform_P-51_%28Brazil%29.jpg
Casio watch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calculatorwatch.jpg
Hitcher: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc/2337307518/
Oscar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Pistorius-2.jpg
Borg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/160264672/
Stormtroopers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josstyk/350211118/
Hand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/541434909/
Vax: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VAX_11_750_Trondheim.jpg
Chip: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Active_pixel_sensor_prototype.jpg
Plane: http://www.flickr.com/photos/observethebanana/2724486461/