Google’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” was in part inspired by the vision of Star Trek’s computer. Generationally, for Millennials and Generation X, there is a more recent point of reference with Jarvis and Tony Stark. Science fiction has always had this role in society: it’s a Janus that faces both the present and the future, incorporating our anxieties and expectations and projecting forward. This dual nature means, of course, that the fiction makes its way into present dreams, and influences the course of progress.