In 1997 J.K. Rowling, in her first Harry Potter<\/i> novel, introduced us to a fictional universe in which people can wave at you from newspaper photos, maps can show you where people are at the moment, and various other fantastical possibilities. A quarter of a century later, we take many of those very same things for granted in our everyday real lives.<\/p>\n
Suppose you wanted to invent a magical fictional universe today, and you only wanted to include “impossible” things that will actually become everyday reality in another twenty five years. What would you include?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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