Living in the future

I was driving to work the other day when a pair of Raptors passed overhead, and thought "Those are one step away from being space fighters."

Just to add to that feeling, I saw reports of ultra hard diamonds, liquid glass coatings, and metal foam. And these are not being treated as front-page, earth shaking news--they're "just" material science results, not something to go crazy over. "Did you hear we discovered ultra hard diamonds?" "Really? Cool. Who do you like for the Super Bowl?"

We are living our lives in a science fiction story.