SciFi
- About SciFi
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Chinese immortals
– Chung-Li Ch’uan
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Ancient astronauts
– The main problem
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Aladdin’s magic lamp
– Before the world had been drained
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Novums
– Time travel
– Antigravity
– Teleportation
– Parallel worlds
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Dimensions
– The four dimensions
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UFOs
– I would like to say I’ve seen them,
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Among us
– If there were aliens,
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First contact
– When they arrived, they didn’t say
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After the first encounter
– Aliens were
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Alien in power
– He’s an alien,
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Tralfamadorians
– The beings who control the Earth
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Mind control
– If the powers that be
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Mindless control
– When Dan Quayle said
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Parasites
– Who’s the parasite and who’s the host?
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Ansible
– I have an old tube radio.
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Openings
– At an antique shop, Peter picked up
– Vibrations
– Walking in the woods, Betty stared
– A shape
– The filling in Joe’s left maxillary
– Second molar
– Billy found a plastic rifle in the alley
– Plastic rifle
– Her TV would not budge from channel 11,
– Channel lock
– The young couple decided to pretend,
– Just in time
– Shaving in the morning
– Identity
– It turned out Ann had always
– Almost human
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Dogs have chips; why don’t we?
– Good news in case you get lost or pass out.
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Aids
– A computer behind the microphone
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Instruments
– An electric guitar is a fancy lute.
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Ubiquitous
– Saving is automatic
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Language
– No one was happy with universal languages;
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Sonic screwdriver
– This small device performs
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Weapons
– Light saber
– Phaser
– Death ray
– Orion’s belt
– The moral problem
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Flying carpet
– The flying carpet is a fantasy
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Pipes
– We can ship
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Warp drive
– It’s not as simple
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Dyson sphere
– I won’t tell you how we got here.
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Swarms
– Swarms of artificial bugs
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Cleaners
– The cleaners are a nuisance.
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Helpers
– We don’t think of them
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Protists
– Your body is full of life,
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Medicinals
– Diagnosis
– Vaccines
– Cancer
– Organ repair
– Joint replacement
– Pain management
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Curium™
– We didn’t know
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Psychoanalysis
– Jung’s collective unconscious
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Cybernetics
– It isn’t as though I clink or whirr.
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Cloning
– We started by cloning
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Better living through genetics
– They complained when our servant beasts
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Hands free
– We used to need you to spell it out.
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Singularity
– This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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Training
– The brain
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Memory rooms
– I float in my mind
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Bionic vision
– When we replace the simple lens
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Solar energy
– We’ll have power
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Gravity
– Gravity is the key to everything.
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Subways
– Tubes, pneumatic tubes
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Megacities
– As the oceans rose
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Fending off
– Since our devices take care
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The game
– The rules of this game
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Imagined life
– Constantly connected,
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Social media
– Friends and funny kittens.
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Computerized intelligent assistants
– Computerized intelligent assistants
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Privacy
– Eventually, the best way to balance
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Role-playing
– Dungeons and Dragons,
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Our own
– For making music at home,
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Library
– My library is the world,
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Overunity
– Overunity doesn’t exist
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Remote sphere
– Since I could live anywhere,
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Volcano
– Wearing an oxygen suit
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Utopia
– Would that it were easy.
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Underwater
– To explore, to work, to live.
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Practice
– We finally realize we already have
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Performance
– Once we understand
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Programming
– It’s almost like a living thing.
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Deployment
– Large-scale implementations
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Bed yoga, coffee zazen
– Raise the ankle, turn the wrist.
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Suspension
– When I close my eyes
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Coping
– Dolphins recognize themselves
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Generations
– They say it takes a generation
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Ammonia to the stars
– Sucking up the oceans
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Grand scopes
– If we can’t maintain a culture
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Return
– We might return