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Ursula K. Le Guin's first novel, Rocannon's World, introduces the ansible, a device that allows people to communicate instantaneously across astronomical distances. This September, scientists made an important step in this realizing this technology by showing they could remotely obliterate a photon that was 15 miles away by messing with its quantum entangled partner. 
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But Asimov wasn’t the only sci-fi visionary, and his predictions seem quaint against some of 2014’s actual advances, such as robotic arm transplants, cloned pets, and quantum teleportation. Here is a gallery of the technologies that brought us closer to—or in a few cases fulfilled completely—the promises made in our favorite works of science fiction.
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