Science (Fiction) in the News "It's not science fiction anymore."

Oct 12, 1931: Dick Tracy comic strip begins; "invents" two-way wrist radio in 1946
Jan 15, 1966: Joseph Weizenbaum publishes paper on Eliza, a program said to pass the Turing Test
May 25, 1977: Star Wars (the movie) and Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative)
Mar 24, 1983: Opponents of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative dub it a Star Wars defense after the 1977 movie of the same name
Mar 08, 1990: "It's not science fiction anymore" ad for Motorola pager
Feb 24, 1997: News release announces Dolly the cloned sheep
Aug 01, 1998: Geneletter on "Cloning in science fiction"
Oct 27, 1999: "Designers get a handle on wrist communicator" (buy one in 2003 and "Feel like a secret agent!")
Jun 02, 2000: "Cyber performers take center stage in ads" (search also for "avatars" and "simulacra")
mm dd, 2001: Longbets: The race between science and science fiction
Jul 18, 2001: "SONY Aibo Entertainment Robot Joins Smithsonian Collection"
Dec 9, 2001: "High-Tech US Arsenal Proves Its Worth" from the Boston Globe
Feb 15, 2002: Asimo the robot opens the New York Stock Exchange
Feb 18, 2002: "Bionics: It's not science fiction anymore"
Feb 25, 2002: Asimo ad in TIME Magazine (pp. 52-53) portrays ideal American family of 1950
Feb 27, 2002: Human computer ID chip proposed
Apr 26, 2002: Proposed tax on science fiction to fund space exploration
Sep 19, 2002: Physicists' Antimatter Recipe Is More Sci- Than Fi
Jul 14, 2003: High-tech chair turns "cheap horror flick...into a dream"
Jul 23, 2003: Minority Report keyboard
Sep 01, 2003: Asimo in the land of Capek (TIME Magazine, p. 18)
Sep 23, 2003: Not Science Fiction: An Elevator to Space
Feb 23, 2004: "Cloning Gets Closer" (TIME Magazine, pp. 48 ff.)
Mar 16, 2004: "Your Trekkie Communicator Is Ready" (Forbes on Vocera's badge communicators)
Jun 15, 2004: "Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling Science Fiction" (NYTimes; SF Museum website)
Dec 10, 2004: "Where Science, Fiction Meet" (LATimes)
Dec 20, 2004: "This Is Your Nation on Steroids" (TIME Magazine; N.B.: the words "science fiction" go unused)
Apr 24, 2006: "Straphangers May One Day Turn Pages With a Button" (NYTimes on e-paper trials)
May 2, 2006: "An Online Game's Economy Yields A.T.M. Dollars" (NYTimes on blurring real/virtual boundary)
Jul 13, 2006: "Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor" (NYTimes reports quasi-psychokinesis)
Mar 27, 2007: "Robots That Slink and Squirm" (NYTimes reports robots "are everywhere")
Dec 16, 2007: "Planetary Politics" (seeing real politicians through a science fictional lens)
Dec 28, 2007: "Sci-Fi Dream Turns World's Worst Nightmare" (NYTimes book review on science / science fiction influences)
Jan 3, 2008: "Not Exactly the Jetsons, but Getting Closer" (NYTimes story about $300 robot)
May 26, 2008: "Sci-fi street light" (Ann Arbor News story about experimental utility)