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"This category [science fiction] excludes rocket ships that make U-turns, serpent men of Neptune that lust after human maidens, and stories by authors who flunked their Boy Scout merit badge tests in descriptive astronomy."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Kitchen Korner | ||
| Just exactly what futurists say you're going to get, like or not, in a refrigerator. |
The future is not all it's cracked up to be; many of the people in it, not to mention the appliances, have cracked up already.
| He got up. The Kitchen Korner, sensing him, woke. The fridge door slid aside. A single ancient leaf of lettuce sagged blackly through the plastic rods of one white shelf. A half-empty bottle of Evian on another. He held his cupped hands above the lettuce... "Hey there," the fridge said. "You've left me open." Laney said nothing. "Well, do you want the door open, partner? You know it interferes with the automatic defrost..." "Be quiet." His hands felt better. Cooler. He withdrew his hands...the fridge taking this opportunity to close itself without further comment. |
| Technovelgy from Idoru,
by William Gibson. Published by Putnam in 1996 Additional resources -
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Sure, a refrigerator that talks back to you. How smart does a smart fridge need to be?
This piece of technovelgy neatly anticipates and pans the classic Bluetooth-enabled refrigerator (circa 1999) that was going to revolutionize our lives.
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I'm hoping that this procedure becomes a normal part of medical practice!
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'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'
'...it was all composed of tiny, identical cubes, carefully laid to form a tilelike surface.'
'He carried on his person a triggering mechanism sensitive to his heartbeat.'
'...Anything was possible in my imaginary environment.'
'Somewhere in space, a chrome and blue automobile raced the green light of Earth.'
'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair...'
