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| Thumb Print Phone ID Verifying identity on a phone call with thumb print. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Orville Ask it questions verbally, and this plowshared guidance system will compute an answer, and provide it telepathically. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Cog Life Life in the bureaucracy. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Electronic Voting A system of elections that used the responses of a statistically average voter. (From Franchise [1955] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Hand Telegraph A means of sending and receiving text messages from a small instrument. (From Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny [1889] by Sir Julius Vogel) |
| Malthusian Belt Readily available oral contraceptives. (From Brave New World [1932] by Aldous Huxley) |
| Distance Viewing Look at any scene anywhere on Earth. (From Giphantia [1761] by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche) |
| Canvas Image A permanent facsimile image is created without drawing; a photograph. (From Giphantia [1761] by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche) |
| Twilight Belt The narrow zone of livable territory on a tidally-locked planet. (From The Mystery of the Twilight Belt [1934] by J.N.T. Lintott) |
| Astrographer A person who makes maps of space and its features, like meteors or gas clouds. (From Flaming Frontier [1934] by Bernard Buley) |
| Rocket Suit A space suit with its own means of motive power. (From Flaming Frontier [1934] by Bernard Buley) |
| Space Station An outpost in space, usually in a fixed position or steady with respect to other bodies in space. (From Flaming Frontier [1934] by Bernard Buley) |
| Galatea - Virtual Person An entirely artificial creation placed in the mind of the user. (From Pygmalion's Spectacles [1935] by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum) |
| Composite Person A synthesis of basic personalities. (From The Mold of Yancy [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Dud Mysterious silvery spheres. (From The Fairy Chessmen [1946] by Lewis Padgett) |
| Interviewed by a Computer An interview conducted by a computer with a person. (From Franchise [1955] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Learning Circuit The watchbirds can learn and teach each other. (From Watchbird [1953] by Robert Sheckley) |
| Information Sharing (Watchbird Network) Watchbird drones can see and learn and then share new information, methods and definitions. (From Watchbird [1953] by Robert Sheckley) |
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