They Were Nerds Once
When I was a kid a science teacher told me that Arthur C Clarke had invented the satellite, which is something I thought to be absolutely absurd. I mean the man was an author and that's it! But it was truly his speculation in "2001: A Space Odyssey" about artificial satellites that prompted the nerds who read his work to make it a reality.
Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, the nerds that grew up watching Japanese animation are making the technology from that genre a reality. For those of you familiar with the anime Akira, one of hte main characters, Kaneda, tools around a post-nuclear Tokyo in souped up electric motorcycle. Now, engineers in Japan have come up with a hybrid electric motorcycle - a technological feat in itself - and designed it to perform like that same fictional bike. They were nerds once, and they brought their nerdiness with them, God bless 'em!