From the article The Country with the Best Sci-Fi Flicks Wins by Dominic Basulto on bigthink.com, 08/30/2013: "...There now seems to be an ongoing race to create the coolest gadgets from our science fiction films, everything from the medical tricorder to the Dick Tracey smart watch to futuristic jet packs. And don't forget that people like [billionaire entrepreneur] Elon Musk and [amazon.com founder & CEO] Jeff Bezos are also working on side projects to send people into outer space and colonize the surface of Mars -- ideas that wouldn't be possible without a thriving science fiction imagination in our country..."
