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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Homorium | ||
| A kind of nursery that could bring a human being to maturity in a single year. |
This is an early use of the concept of accelerated growth. The last human beings were carefully grown by the swarming insects who had finally inherited the earth.
| In hanging nursery homoriums thousands of men and women were yearly grown and instructed. The process of growth was unbelievably rapid. The growth-span of the human race had once embraced a number of years, but the swarming masters could transform a tiny infant into a gangling youth in six months, and into a bearded adult, strong-limbed and robust, in twelve or fourteen. Gland injections and prism-ray baths were the chief causal agents of this extraordinary metmorphosis... |
| Technovelgy from The Last Men,
by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.. Published by Street and Smith in 1934 Additional resources -
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Men were counseled not to take beautiful women (from the women's homorium) as mates; you know what happened to the most beautiful insects - pinned to an exhibit board.
Just two years earlier, Huxley wrote about an artificial womb that would permit a variety of modifications to be made to a fetus.
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