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Well, the one data point we have so far suggests that every time this space links to nerdy science fiction the central technology of said story turns out to be under actual development by the same U.S. Government outfit that was fictionally purported to be doing same in the story. From The Atlantic's Primary Sources (scroll down to the bottom):

The conspiracy geeks and Area 51 obsessives are right-the U.S. government is heavily invested in research projects that brush the borders of science fiction. But many of those ventures aren't top secret, so long as you're willing to wade through the latest budget statement for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which contains funding estimates for various projects, including some distinctly sinister-sounding ones. The spookiest of these is probably the "Brain Machine Interface Program," which promises to "create new technologies for augmenting human performance through the ability to access neural codes in the brain in real time and integrate them into peripheral device or system operations." In other words, if the project pans out (a rather large "if," to be sure), the soldier of the future will be a functional telepath, controlling equipment from a distance and perhaps even communicating "brain-to-brain" with his fellow soldiers.