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Leonard Nimoy talks to Science Friday about the influence of science fiction, along with physics professor John Kramer and science fiction writer Robert Sawyer, back on November 20, 1998.

Leonard Nimoy on SciFri in 1998

So far in our series about tech predicted in the 1989 movie about time travel, we've talked about sleep inducing technology, biometrics and more. Today's topic? The weather. Back to the Future Part II had a forecast for a 2015 world where a piece of wearable technology told Doc what the weather would do up to the second. Or was the weather being controlled? Matt Novak, author of Gizmodo's Paleofuture blog, joins us to talk about the scene - and about the history of weather control.

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Stacey Lim