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Datumplane The workspace of console cowboys - the matrix.
(From Hyperion [1989] by Dan Simmons) |
Model the Universe A computer capacious enough to contain a representation of the entire universe.
(From The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age [1965] by Stanislaw Lem) |
TechnoCore A group of artificial intelligences with vast resources and the entirety of human dataspheres to access.
(From Hyperion [1989] by Dan Simmons) |
Project Scoop A space craft feature that collects dust for study.
(From The Andromeda Strain [1969] by Michael Crichton) |
Structural Scanning Essentially, a whole-object camera, that would take a detailed picture of the structure of an object.
(From Assassin [1978] by James P. Hogan) |
Puddinged A poorly formed 3D printed copy, with an interior that was a mass of malformed material.
(From Pay for the Printer [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
Cranial Amplified Programming CAP An aid to learning, which you apply directly to your skull.
(From Killing Titan [2015] by Greg Bear) |
Deposition (3D Printing) A method for creating any object, molecule by molecule.
(From Assassin [1978] by James P. Hogan) |
Trip-Box A teleportation device.
(From Eye of Cat [1982] by Roger Zelazny) |
Ghostwheel A sentient computer partially built with magic.
(From Blood of Amber [1986] by Roger Zelazny) |
UHF Shower And ultra high frequency shower, which do used energy instead of water to wash off.
(From Eye of Cat [1982] by Roger Zelazny) |
Genetically Tailored Trees Trees that had been genetically altered to produce and concentrate usable oil.
(From Eye of Cat [1982] by Roger Zelazny) |
Call Notification Unit A small portable device that let you know that you had a phone call at your home.
(From Eye of Cat [1982] by Roger Zelazny) |
Improve Memory Help immortals make sense of their memories.
(From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
Plastissue Artificial flesh.
(From Accidental Flight [1952] by W.F. Wallace) |
Magneslippers Shoes that adhere to metal space ship floors, useful in null gravity situations.
(From Accidental Flight [1952] by W.F. Wallace) |
Self-Repairing Robot A mechanism that can detect faults in itself and repair them.
(From Accidental Flight [1952] by W.F. Wallace) |
Toaster A handheld beam weapon.
(From Accidental Flight [1952] by W.F. Wallace) |
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