San Antonio's innovative Children's Museum, dubbed the DoSeum, will be taking kids into what may be the world they will inhabit as grown-ups, with the new traveling exhibition 'Science Fiction, Science Future, which opens this weekend, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"So basically it takes the technologies from science fiction, and the kids get to interact with it, and play with it, and it also talks about the science behind the science fiction," said Meredith Doby, the Vice President of Exhibits.
She says, as with other exhibits, the DoSeum uses interactivity to help the kids play along.
"They can go in, they can imagine they are being beamed up, they can control things with their eyes on a computer screen, a robot can imitate their facial motions."
She says the kids will be experimenting with technology that may be reality by the time they become adults.
"We are excited to watch guests experiment with this evolving technology and develop an understanding of how science will benefit society now and in the future."
Among the exhibitions:
Design a cyborg.
Look at how people 100 years ago imagined today, and whether they got it right.
Control various components on a computer screen using only your eyeballs.
Will we some day use holograms instead of mobile phones to communicate?
The exhibition runs until January.