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| Colloid Dielectric A non-living receptacle for a human mind. (From One For The Robot - Two For The Same... [1950] by Rog Philips) |
| Culture Mind A highly advanced, space-borne entirely autonomous intelligence. (From Consider Phlebas [1987] by Iain M Banks) |
| 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) |
| Flying Wire Barbed wire that seeks to expand to its remembered size and extent. (From Make Room! Make Room! [1966] by Harry Harrison) |
| Spherical Display An arbitrarily large display that is a perfect sphere. (From Surface Detail [2010] by Iain M Banks) |
| 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) |
| Flame-Tool A searing rapier of death! also handy for cutting sheets of metal. (From The Gate to Xoran [1931] by H.G. Wells) |
| Supercalculator Connecting all the computing machines of the universe! (From Answer [1954] by Frederic Brown) |
| Implanted Transceiver Disc A transceiver inserted into the brain of the operator. (From Blood on the Sun [1942] by Hal K. Wells) |
| Blasting Globules A deadly rain of precisely distributed small explosives. (From Blood on the Sun [1942] by Hal K. Wells) |
| The Test An examination to guide those who would cap their population. (From The Test [1954] by Richard Matheson) |
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