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Grok And The City Fathers From 'Cities In Flight' By James Blish
'Chris, the City Fathers are not interested in your welfare; I suppose you know that. They're interested in only one thing: the survival of the city.' - James Blish, 1957. (re: James Blish)

Why Not Move A Warehouse District?
'Did you never see a moving house before?' - Jane Webb Loudon, 1828. (re: Jane Webb Loudon)

Will An AI Found A New Religion?
'You must decide how you will worship Me.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert)

Terraformer Industries Make Methane
'Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock...' - Jack Williamson, 1942. (re: Jack Williamson)

I Need An Outdoor Spherical Display
'Usually a spherical display hovered in the centre...' - Iain M. Banks, 2010. (re: Iain M. Banks)

Worm Disrupts Physics Simulations Undetected For A Decade
'It diverts integers of the data, the fundamental message-units, so that they no longer agree.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Muxcard Redditor's DIY Credit Card-Sized Computer
It's a computer, but just barely. (re: Various)

'Soft Assembly' Fashions That Fashion Themselves On The Wearer
'Clothes are no longer made from dead fibers of fixed color and texture that can approximate only crudely to the vagrant human figure...' - JG Ballard, 1970. (re: JG Ballard)

Orwell's Nightmare Of AI-Written Novels Comes To Pass
'Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.' - George Orwell, 1948. (re: George Orwell)

ISS Plagued By Leak - Again!
'There were perhaps a dozen bladder-like objects in the tunnel...' - Robert Heinlein, 1948. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Ridiculous 'Ghost Murmur' Tech Still Science Fiction
'...it rears and spreads its fan. It can pick one man out of a crowd.' - Roger Zelazny, 1967. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Outdoor Video Screens Can Be Arbitrarily Large
The Shape of Things To Come, HG Wells, 1936. (re: HG Wells)

Infrared Contact Lenses To See In The Dark
'I can see in the dark, Case.' William Gibson, 1984. (re: William Gibson)

What'll You Have? Extinct Animals Returned, Or Synthetic Eggshells?
'...a new plastic with the characteristics of an avian eggshell.' - Michael Crichton, 1990. (re: Michael Crichton)

Sunbird Pulsar Fusion Like Leinster's Space Tug
'It was a pushpot, which could not possibly be called a jet plane because it could not possibly fly. Only it did.' - Murray Leinster, 1953. (re: Murray Leinster)

RentAHuman App Lets AI Agents Hire Humans
'She wouldn't stop until Antar had told her everything he knew about whatever it was that she was playing with on her screen.' - Amitav Ghosh, 1995. (re: Amitav Ghosh)

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