Brian David Johnson is a futurist at Intel who's work complements our own investigation well. He's a sharp, fun, and fascinating guy who is exploring how Science Fiction is already being used as a prototyping process for the development of real technologies, products, and services.

His latest two books (he wrote Screen Future last year), investigate the subject from two different perspectives. The first, Science Fiction Prototyping, directly investigates how SF can be used as a design technique, complete with interviews, examples, and some process description. It's a fun, smart read. You can download his book in PDF here: http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/csl/1/1

The second, The Tomorrow Project, is a set of commissioned SciFi stories specifically to inspire designers and developers to create new things using these stories as a departure