Science Fiction and HCI/CHI: Past, Present, and Future

My own interest in science fiction began in early childhood. When I was about eight, my late brother and I would tell bed-time stories to each other at night in our bunk-beds in a darkened bedroom. I told tales about our teddy bears traveling to distant planets. One planet had a tree on it that would grow new teddy bears, which would emerge like ripe fruits from flowery buds, then drop off the tree and begin running. I also imagined a book of all knowledge that my teddy bear would consult to answer any question (an early imagining of the Internet and Google searches).