SciFi

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