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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 4,250 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 6,800 Science Fiction in the News articles.

AI Operates An Excavator
'So far as I could see, the thing was without a directing Martian at all.' - HG Wells, 1898. (5/19/2026)
Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.' (5/17/2026)
US Army IBEX Exoskeleton Walks Troops Out Of Danger
'The suit stands up and starts walking, gripping me round the calves and waist, taking the bulk of my weight off my throbbing feet.' - Iain Banks, 1987. (5/17/2026)
Elon Musk Wants Data Centers In Space
'Internally it’s made up of millions of components, but the most important ones are the thinking and memory parts of the Mind proper.' - Iain Banks, 1987. (5/15/2026)
Origin F1 Humanoid Robot's Facial Skin
'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.' - Rog Philips, 1950. (5/13/2026)
Grok And The City Fathers From 'Cities In Flight' By James Blish
'Chris, the City Fathers are not interested in your welfare; I suppose you know that. They're interested in only one thing: the survival of the city.' - James Blish, 1957. (5/11/2026)
Why Not Move A Warehouse District?
'Did you never see a moving house before?' - Jane Webb Loudon, 1828. (5/9/2026)
Will An AI Found A New Religion?
'You must decide how you will worship Me.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (5/7/2026)
Terraformer Industries Make Methane
'Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock...' - Jack Williamson, 1942. (5/5/2026)
I Need An Outdoor Spherical Display
'Usually a spherical display hovered in the centre...' - Iain M. Banks, 2010. (5/3/2026)
Worm Disrupts Physics Simulations Undetected For A Decade
'It diverts integers of the data, the fundamental message-units, so that they no longer agree.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (5/1/2026)
Muxcard Redditor's DIY Credit Card-Sized Computer
It's a computer, but just barely. (4/29/2026)
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Robotic Undersea Turtle
A sea-going robot that resembles a turtle.
(From Epilogue [1962] by Poul  Anderson)
Culture Mind
A highly advanced, space-borne entirely autonomous intelligence.
(From Consider Phlebas [1987] by Iain M  Banks)
Colloid Dielectric
A non-living receptacle for a human mind.
(From One For The Robot - Two For The Same... [1950] by Rog  Philips)
Synthetic Rubberoid Skin
An artful recreation of a human face, indistinguishable from the original.
(From One For The Robot - Two For The Same... [1950] by Rog  Philips)
Balloon Tree
Also called the "Migratory Tree", it uses a gas-filled bladder to ascend into the sky.
(From The Balloon Tree [1883] by Edward Page  Mitchell)
Index Rating
Understanding what you should do (or not do) is part of the test.
(From Gemini Cavendish [1971] by Gordon  Eklund)
Smart Suit
An autonomous exoskeleton.
(From Descendant [1987] by Iain M  Banks)
Earth-Brain
The intelligence center of the living Earth!
(From The Earth-Brain [1932] by Edmond  Hamilton)
Robox

(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank  Herbert)
AI Declares Godhood
An artificial machine intelligence declares itself to be God, and demands worship from humans.
(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank  Herbert)
Spherical Display
An arbitrarily large display that is a perfect sphere.
(From Surface Detail [2010] by Iain M  Banks)
Flying Wire
Barbed wire that seeks to expand to its remembered size and extent.
(From Make Room! Make Room! [1966] by Harry  Harrison)
Very Large Black Boxes
Creating a computer system that solves problems without specific programming.
(From Summa Technologiae [1964] by Stanislaw  Lem)
Synthetic Eggshell

(From Jurassic Park [1990] by Michael  Crichton)
Federal Bureau of Termination
The door out of this life is always open - for you.
(From 2 B R 0 2 B [1962] by Kurt  Vonnegut, Jr.)
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