Echoes of Science Fiction:

Subvocal Speech Recognition is here.

Harlan Ellison's screenplay for I, Robot, which I reread this evening, mentions the use of miniaturized radios with headphones to play rock music by brazilian aborigines - doubtlessly echoes of a future iTunes advertisement.

For the Record (again) , Dulles Sucks. Getting to the Independence Air terminal is pretty bad, with the strange giant elevated buses between terminals, but the United Express commuter plane terminal takes the cake as nothing more (or is that less) than a converted warehouse, with what passes for concourses as open air hallways of corrugated metal, very chic in a retro third world circa 1970 yet not quite socialist realism somebody please shoot the designer sort of way.