This looks like a great site. So many of the things that we take for granted, were conceived by people who had no idea their work of imagination would one day have a practical use. Our futures can be steered by the books we have read as children, when we do not presume to call things impossible.

It certainly is. I only clipped the time line, but if you're intruiged by this, you should follow the blog/news page "Science Fiction in the News". There's an rss-feed @ the source