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| Public Eye A floating, free-roaming surveillance camera. (From Friday [1982] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Beanstalk Clever name for the space elevator. (From Friday [1982] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Machine Psychologist A computer that understands and uses its knowledge of human psychology to benefit human users. (From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish) |
| Vivisector A program that takes another computer program apart, while it's running, to see what it does. (From Earth [1990] by David Brin) |
| Autosecretary (Autosec) A software agent able to accept your query and then seach the public net for related information. (From Earth [1990] by David Brin) |
| Citizen Journalism The notion that ordinary people can make use of technological tools like cellphone cameras and the Internet to provide information. (From Earth [1990] by David Brin) |
| ChickieNobs Chicken meat sliced from a transgenic organism. (From Oryx and Crake [2003] by Margaret Atwood) |
| Anti-Spying Device Foolproof means of defending against spy beams. (From Foundation [1951] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Kite-Copter Car An observation car suspended below a device that supplies lift. (From The Kokod Warriors [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Mnemiphot A device used to search for information, which is then presented on a convenient screen. (From The Kokod Warriors [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Ethical Suicide Parlor A comfy environment in which you might commit ethical suicide, and thereby serve society. (From Welcome to the Monkey House [1958] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) |
| Government Lethal Chamber A legal suicide booth. (From The Repairer of Reputations [1895] by Robert W. Chambers) |
| Automated Wake-Up Call A device that provides automated wake-up calls. (From The Kokod Warriors [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Airlock An intermediate chamber between airless space and the interior of a space craft. (From The Skylark of Space [1928] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Wristband Viewer A device for viewing aerial surveillance images that fits on your wrist. (From Changeling [1980] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Optic Prosthesis A replacement for a damaged eye. (From Changeling [1980] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Robot Gun An automated gun; typically used for sentry duty. (From Aliens [1986] by Alan Dean Foster) |
| Inorganic Evolution A process by which robots could alter their own structure, or the ways that they interact with other robots, to adapt to a changing world. (From The Invincible [1954] by Stanislaw Lem) |
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