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Data-Net
An early mention of the idea of a nationwide data network.
(From The Shockwave Rider [1975] by John Brunner)
Robot Bird
A small winged UAV that can mimic a bird in flight.
(From Invader on My Back [1968] by Philip E. High)
Darknet Farm
A farm that uses computer networked information systems to achieve sustainable agriculture in a community.
(From Freedom [2010] by Daniel Suarez)
Full-Shift Set Variable
Infinite possibilities built into a game machine.
(From Return Match [1967] by Philip K. Dick)
Win-Reducing Gambling Circuit
Circuitry in a game that detects winning strategies and then alters the game to make winning more difficult.
(From Return Match [1967] by Philip K. Dick)
Brood Assembly
Artificially intelligent computers that can replicate themselves.
(From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish)
Machine Surveillance
The use of artificially intelligent computer systems to learn by monitoring all human interaction within a city.
(From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish)
Robant
A robotic servant.
(From The Impossible Planet [1953] by Philip K. Dick)
Loitering Micro-Missile
A small missile that does not need line-of-sight and can move at a slow pace until it finds its target.
(From Invader on My Back [1968] by Philip E. High)
Spetsdöd
A unique gun that is part of the shooter.
(From The Man Who Never Missed [1985] by Steve Perry)
Razorback
Autonomous motorcycle weapons platform.
(From Daemon [2006] by Daniel Suarez)
Pseudogravity
Gravity produced by artifice, rather than by a suitably large mass.
(From Common Sense [1941] by Robert Heinlein)
Space Travel
Human movement through outer space.
(From A Baby on Neptune [1929] by Clare Winger Harris (w/MJ Breuer))
Self-Selling Robot
A robot that sells itself.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick)
Ident-Key
Allows the retrieval of a person's entire history of reading material, allowing the prediction of his future thinking.
(From The Penultimate Truth [1964] by Philip K. Dick)
KloraDerm
Human skin variant that contains chlorophyll to provide energy.
(From Old Man's War [2005] by John Scalzi)
Manufactured Wife
A wife made to order, programmed to meet her husband's requirements.
(From A Wife Manufactured to Order [1895] by Alice W. Fuller)
Video Communicator
A device that carried both voice and image, letting the two parties see each other.
(From The Machine Stops [1909] by E.M. Forster)
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