And this is less futuristic than it may sound.

Preparedness requires strategic thinking, a futuristic mindset and anticipatory skills.

These are 2020 circa scenarios, but they're not as futuristic as it may sound.

But now we have these amazing, futuristic composites plastics that change shape, paints that conduct electricity, pigments that change color, fabrics that light up.

In that the shell was originally conceived as a lightweight, modern, futuristic, high tech pod for hurtling down the freeway, and the interiors were completely out of sync with that.

Now this story doesn't start with vast telescopes or futuristic spacecraft, but a rather more humble technology and in fact, the very medium which gave us the telecommunications revolution that we're all part of today the telephone.

How can a super thin, three inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting, futuristic demonstration, Boaz Almog shows how a phenomenon known as quantum locking allows a superconductor disk to float over a magnetic rail completely frictionlessly and with zero energy loss.