Last one for today, I promise. I received a major treat for my fifteenth birthday: my mother took my family and a couple of my friends to a new place in town called Chuck E. Cheese’s, a pizza joint with video games galore. Because it was a birthday party, our pizzas were brought out by …
Here’s one that no SF author ever thought of: pants that prevent flatulence from smelling. In retrospect, it’s so obvious that you can’t help but wonder how anyone missed it. I expect I’ll get a year’s supply of these as a Christmas present from GoddessJ.
Another technology from lots of different science fiction stories, vat-grown synthi-meat has finally put in an appearance! Forget green eggs and ham. Here comes green ham and eggs! 😉
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
This is the kind of stuff that I love to find! Technologies that are currently found only in science fiction, such as interstellar travel, all rely on a number of unspoken assumptions… for instance, that the people traveling that way have some way of eating during the trip. (Even if they make the trip in …
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A friend and I were discussing this kind of thing recently. As Mr. Doctorow says, “about time.” Of course, the case has almost zero chance of ever getting to court. The RIAA has a history of settling such counter-suits (as well as any lawsuit they bring, if it looks like they might not win) long …
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