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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
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![]() You're probably thinking that this is just some sort of needlessly picky sf word. See below.
Read more about precrime.
"Post-crime" is one of those great sf words that put the ordinary world into a surreal light, like "groundcar" for an ordinary automobile (as opposed to an "aircar"), or a "static home" (as opposed to a "psychotropic house") or inert-wear (as opposed to bio-fabric clothes that moved on their own).
This word may already be needed in the real world. It turns out that criminal profilers working for the London Metropolitan Police's Homicide Prevention Unit are putting together a list of 100 future murderers. See 'Precrime' Database For London Homicide Prevention Unit for details. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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