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The Terrafugia Transition car-airplane vehicle
on display at the New York Auto Show

In the movie:
In Blade Runner, flying cars are a common form of transportation.

What has happened in real life?
Engineers (5) (design) and (6) (build)

some flying cars already. A flying car (7) (appear) at the New York
International Auto Show in 2012.

Movie #2: Minority Report (2002) Place and Time: Washington, DC, 2054

In the movie:

1
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, computers don’t have keyboards or mice. Instead,
people wear special gloves and make movements with their fingers. They use these
movements to control their computers.
What has happened in real life?

Since the movie Minority Report (8) (come) out in 2002, touch-
screen phones and computers (9) (become) very common. Also, for

several years, computer games (10) (allow) users to control the action
with hand and body movements.

1 mice: small devices used to control computers

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