January 2nd is the day selected for this wonderful holiday because it was Isaac Asimov's birthday. It's a day to celebrate, appreciate, and even read some of the many science fiction offerings at your local library, bookstore, website, or your own bookshelf.
And speaking of Asimov, Open Culture posted some of his predictions for the year 2014, which he wrote about in 1964. Some of them are eerily prescient, until you realize that quite a bit of our technology is inspired by visionary science fiction.
Here's a sample
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