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Poison Space Cloud (Etheric Poison) A deadly cloud of gas large enough to envelop the solar system.
(From The Poison Belt [1913] by Arthur Conan Doyle) |
Metavirus (Digital Metavirus) Binary code that can infect computers or even hackers, through the binary nerve.
(From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
Galactography Geography on a galactic scale.
(From Second Foundation [1953] by Isaac Asimov) |
Kzinti Lesson - Propulsion As Weapon The power of a craft's means of propulsion repurposed as an offensive weapon.
(From The Warriors [1966] by Larry Niven) |
Planetary ID Card Identification for every person on every planet in the solar system.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Bifocal TV Screen Lenses Using the bottom lens of bifocals as a TV screen.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Dream-House An establishment wherein one could find the finest dream adventures placed in his own mind.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Dream-Machine The mechanism that sent standardized dreams into the brain.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Floating Villa An artificial island several acres in extent.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Death-Capsule A tiny implanted explosive capsule can be activated remotely.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Dream-Adventures Dreams sent directly to the brain are more popular than movies.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Solar Station Switch Room A power station for the entire solar system.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Credibility Rating How believable are your blog posts? your emails? your tweets?
(From Earth [1990] by David Brin) |
Dazer A person who learned biofeedback techniques to float on his own endorphins.
(From Earth [1990] by David Brin) |
Water From Lunar Gypsum Extracting water (and therefore oxygen, by electrolysis) from apparently dry lunar material.
(From The Moon is Hell [1950] by John W. Campbell) |
Earplug Decision (Restraint of Advertising) A Supreme Court judgement that declared that earplugs used to block advertising were unconstitutional.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith) |
Buy-Me-Discs Tiny disks attached to products in stores that received transmitted ads to share with consumers.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith) |
Master Ventriloquism Corporation (MV) A central source of product advertising, commercials sent out to every product.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith) |
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