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Ocicat
Castle Watchcat
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Anything for a Weird Life
We live in a science fiction world
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February 12, 2014, 10:05:24 PM
I went skiing this morning and heard an exchange that would have fit right in to a 50's SF story. From a little girl to her ski instructor:
"Mr. Clark, would you ask your helmet what time it is?"
"I just did, it's around 11."
Moritz
Lochage
Posts: 512
Re: We live in a science fiction world
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February 14, 2014, 11:15:22 AM
I once walked past a bus stop and it had a working video screen as part of the advert poster. And that was 6 years ago
Jompier
Palmer
Posts: 35
From a galaxy far, far on the East Coast.
Re: We live in a science fiction world
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February 14, 2014, 02:29:17 PM
Have you seen this list of Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction (
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-inventions-inspired-by-science-fiction-128080674/
)? Its pretty interesting. The surprises for me were H.G. Wells as inspiration for atomic energy (circa 1914) and Heinlein as the inspiration for remote controlled appendages.
SonofSpermcube
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Re: We live in a science fiction world
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March 02, 2014, 05:15:30 AM
We live in Snow Crash.
slic
Hipparch
Posts: 727
Stephen Lumini
Re: We live in a science fiction world
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March 07, 2014, 07:03:06 PM
Quote from: SonofSpermcube on March 02, 2014, 05:15:30 AM
We live in Snow Crash.
We are definitely coming pretty close - though their VR is much further ahead of ours! I still use the term loglo...
SonofSpermcube
Guest
Re: We live in a science fiction world
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March 09, 2014, 07:22:12 PM
I'd really rather be living in Star Trek.
TwoXForr
Extern
Posts: 15
Re: We live in a science fiction world
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July 05, 2014, 04:13:31 PM
I wish we would move away from the IT expansion (faster, better, more info all the time, more reachable) and concentrate on expanding our physical parameters, maybe a space elevator, mining asteroids, Mars, and undersea colonies.
"Reason is not automatic. Those that deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand.
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