McDevitt remembers only one story about 25 years ago that predicted computers being tied together in a worldwide network. Traveling faster than the speed of light so you can zip around is another. Then there is cryonics - freezing yourself to the point of death so you can remain preserved, so . . . Ultimately, Leyden said, science fiction should be viewed as exactly that - scientific fiction. ''I am not a debunker by any means. We want to believe they are out there.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.