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

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

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)

Japan's AI Buddharoid Automonks
'...each of them is a neural mapping of the mind of a Tibetan monk who actually lived.' - Ray Naylor, 2022. (re: Ray Naylor)

MIT Computerized Bionic Leg Is Part Of The User
'The leg was to function, in a way, as a servo-mechanism operated by Larry’s brain, through the mediation of the electronic brain in the leg.' - Charles Recour, 1949. (re: Charles Recour)

The New Habitable Zones Include Asimov's Ribbon Worlds
'...there's a narrow belt where the climate is moderate.' - Harl Vincent, 1931. (re: Harl VIncent)

California Governor Candidate Calls For Voting By Phone
'... every veephone on the continent would display, over and over, two propositions.' John Brunner, 1975. (re: John Brunner)

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