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Project Silica Offers 'Long-Term' Digital Storage
'... folios and tapes and playable discs of platinum alloy.' - EE 'Doc' Smith, 1934. (re: EE 'Doc' Smith)

Can 'Tactical Umbrellas' Shield One From Drones
'... another corner of his mind began to think about the shields.' - Frank Herbert, 1958. (re: Frank Herbert)

Crystalline Structures In Space, You Say?
A massive space borne lifeform from ST:TNG. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Garçon! A Menu For Artemis II, S'il Vous Plaît
'Michel Ardan, as a Frenchman, was declared chief cook, an important function, which raised no rival.' - Jules Verne, 1867. (re: Jules Verne)

Amazing Photonic Crystal Light Sail
'That sail will be twenty thousand miles at the wide part.' - Cordwainer Smith, 1960. (re: Cordwainer Smith)

Blue Collar AI Goes To Work To Mine Its Own Crypto
Blue collar bot. (re: Harry Harrison)

Rogue AI Replicated Itself
'Sapiro’s computer just kept dialing at random, hanging up on humans, until it got a fellow computer of the same type as itself.' - Gregory Benford, 1970. (re: Gregory Benford)

HandelBot Helps Two-Handed Robots Learn Piano
'I request that you feed the correlation between those dots and the levers of the panel into my memory banks.' (re: Herbert Goldstone)

Woven Fiber Electronic Skin For Robots
'... all the feel and appearance of human flesh and epidermis.' - Harl Vincent, 1934. (re: Harl VIncent)

When AI Takes Its First Breath
Any suggestions? (re: Various)

Chinese Aircar Light And Airy, Not For Blade Runners
Daytime version. (re: Ridley Scott)

The Morphing Wheel And The Smartwheel
'If you surf over a bump, the spokes contract to roll over it.' Neal Stephenson, 1992. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Transporting Antimatter
'...drawing plans for the magnetic tongs and bed plates and relays.' (re: Jack Williamson)

Polish Turns Your Nail Into A Stylus
'He wrote on it, using the pointed fingernail of his right forefinger...' - Cordwainer Smith, 1950. (re: Cordwainer Smith)

I Wish This Plaudit Pin Was More Like A Wristpad
'Frank was cursing into his wristpad, switching between Arabic and English.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992. (re: Kim Stanley Robinson)

World's Largest Teleoperated Arm
'...a pair so huge that Stevens could not conceive a use for it..' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (re: Robert Heinlein)

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