Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

The final novel of the Foundation trilogy; will psychohistory get back on track and bring peace to the galaxy? You've read the first two books; this is more of the same great stuff. (Also, take a look at the inventive ideas from Asimov's first and second books in the trilogy - Foundation and Foundation and Empire.) Select an invention:

Automatic Ticket Machine - your ticket to the stars
Get your ticket to Trantor automatically.

Farming Trantor
Taking apart a vast city, and returning to farming the land.

Galactography
Geography on a galactic scale.

Hypertracer
A device that allows a pursuer to follow a spaceship through hyperspace.

Lens Image
A presentation of the night sky, calculated for any planet or point in space.

Mental Static Device
Cloak the minds of individuals with a kind of 'noise'.

Ovoid 3D Galactic Model
A handheld display of a galaxy.

Prime Radiant - the ultimate conference projector
A projector that puts all of a vast collection of writings on the wall of a special conference room. You could interact with it by writing on the wall; changes were stored.

Transcriber - an automated transcriptionist
A automated transcriptionist - a machine which perfectly translates human speech into words on paper.

Visicastor
A person who presents video broadcasts.

 

Technovelgy.com is devoted to the creative inventions of science fiction authors and movie makers. Look for the Science Fiction Invention Category that interests you, the Glossary of Science Fiction Inventions, the Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions, or see what's New.
Find
new authors and technologies - Shop for yourself, your library and your lab.

 

 

 

 

Science Fiction
in the News

Chaffeur Robot Musashi Will Drive Your Regular Car
re: Philip K Dick
(7/10/2024)

Space Exporers! Now, You Can Drink Your Own Urine
re: Frank Herbert
(7/8/2024)

SpaceX EVA Spacesuit Tested By Polaris Dawn Crew
re: Otto Willi Gail
(7/6/2024)

Automatic Bot Traffic Is 38 Percent Of HTTP Requests
re: John Brunner
(7/4/2024)

Shanghai Guidelines For Humanoid Robots
re: Isaac Asimov
(7/2/2024)

Desktop TARS Robot From Interstellar
re: Christopher Nolan
(6/30/2024)

Robots Can Now Have Smiling Faces With Human Skin
re: James Cameron
(6/28/2024)

Virtual Rat Predicts Actual Rat Neural Activity
re: William Callahan
(6/26/2024)

GoSun EV Solar Charger Drapes Onto Your Car
re: Robert Heinlein
(6/24/2024)

Rizon 4 Ironing Robot
re: Mikhail Mikheev
(6/22/2024)

Cognify - A Prison Of The Mind We've Seen Before In SF
re: Joe Haldeman
(6/20/2024)

Robot With Human Brain Organoid - 'A Thrilling Story Of Mechanistic Progress'
re: Otis Adelbert Kline
(6/18/2024)

Goodness Gracious Me! Google Tries Face Recognition Security
re: Schachner and Zagat
(6/16/2024)

With Mycotecture, We'll Just Grow The Space Habitats We Need
re: Larry Niven
(6/14/2024)

More SF in the News

Home | Glossary | Invention Timeline | Category | New | Contact Us | FAQ | Advertise |
Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction™

Copyright© Technovelgy LLC; all rights reserved.