As you are aware the futuristic trio were suggested by my dad way back 1980. Then future shock and third wave were published; it was at age 21. If any read or go through 3 books , much of the mind boggling go away. A century old experiments on fiber optics matured by 1985 and we saw ocean bed fiber optic cables which work 65000 times faster than copper cables. Thus we saw Bilgates writing the book The Road Ahead in 1990. But humans are more involved in start treak and flying saucer s which require lot of miniatures energies.