It's like everything in 80s science fiction movies is coming true.
>EM drive
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/
>cybernetic limbs
http://nypost.com/2015/10/25/five-amputees-show-off-the-amazing-advances-in-artificial-limbs/
>military mech suits
http://www.techinsider.io/the-militarys-iron-man-suit-called-talos-will-arrive-in-2018-2015-10
>anti-missile laser turrets
http://gizmodo.com/5978740/us-military-to-install-laser-turrets-in-combat-airplanes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
>buy an AK over the internet using digital untraceable credits from a tiny wrist device
http://gizmodo.com/5927379/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything
https://bitcoin.org/
http://gizmodo.com/the-best-smartwatch-for-every-wrist-1671271995
>superscience designer drugs
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/features/new-black-market-designer-drugs-why-now
>advanced AI neural nets
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/62336/20150622/inceptionism-google-takes-advanced-artificial-neural-networks-on-an-awesome-acid-trip.htm
http://mashable.com/2012/10/09/google-artificial-intelligence/
>conqueror death cult attempting world domination
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Islamic+State
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-08/isis-releases-photos-captured-us-weapons
>navy railguns
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-first-look-at-americas-supergun-1464359194
>killer robot drones
http://www.baka.com.au/technology/sci-tech/killer-robots-invisible-drones-not-science-fiction-any-more-welcome-to-war-20160118-gm8rwi.html
>genetic engineering
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-inequality-human-genetic-engineering-768
and now
>rare super mineral with strange properties discovered
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-metal-organic-frameworks-hot-material-nature.html
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/freak-minerals-found-buried-siberia-fuels-cells-future/
c'mon dude
>>18006825
bampu
Even the music is going back to 80's style stuff.
Well duh, star trek of the 70's brought smartphones and bluetooth earpieces (beam me up scotty) we needed to advance to 80's scifi.
Come on gundams, you can do it!
>>18006825
So what?
Jules Verne (1870) got us Nuclear Submarines (1954)
It is one of the purposes of Science Fiction to imagine the future.
>>18006825
Just need some pointy eared bastards and trogs and we've got ourselves the sixth age, eh chummers?
The EM drive isn't fully proven, not even close. The thrust it was shown to produce is so small it could be an anomalous measurement error from the instrumentation itself
Bitcoins are extremely traceable
If you want something truly scifi look at a modern high end smartphone. ARM SoCs are mid 2000s desktop PCs in the palm of your hand pulling 2w~