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We've seen a lot of futuristic visions this past year, but sometimes even the coolest ones aren't exactly "best." I mean, the greenified New York City in I Am Legend looked great, but who would want to be the guy in that future? For our list of best futures, we've picked tomorrows that are sometimes perilous but always give us the "I want to be there" zoom. Our picks come from science fiction as well as in evolutionary biology and even city planning. Plus, there's some sex. Who doesn't want a sexy future? More »
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Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. They'll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really tight steel lids, to keep the freshness in. What other scifi films were deemed by the government to be worthy of preservation forever? More »
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Which visions of the future made us crave Lasik surgery the most in 2007? Hint: they involved wimpy cyborgs, blah parasites, boring plagues and "time-famine." Click through to read our picks for the most underwhelming futures of the past year, in both scifi and futurist predictions. More »
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