http://www.technovelgy.com/ The inventions of sf writers come to life in today's headlines at Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction. en-us Copyright 2004-2013, Bill Christensen 'What about an exact electric duplicate of your cat?'- Philip K. Dick, 1968. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3992 'Then he saw the geek ... leaning against one of the slender stalks of a sunshade-photocell collector...'- David Brin, 1990. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3991 '...I balked when my wife served me termites.'- David Brin, 1994. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3990 How long ago did Robert Heinlein write about skiing on dry alien worlds? (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3988 'There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.'- George Orwell, 1948. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3987 'A cable, here, from the controller to the interface plug... wires from that to the brain.'- Thomas Easton, 1990. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3986 DNA sampling is not the same as fingerprinting. Do you agree with this? (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3985 'Everything was ready, awaiting the Overlords' pleasure...'- Arthur C. Clarke, 1953. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3984 'Five hundred billion gallons worth of Antarctic iceberg had been towed into Santa Monica Bay.'- Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3983 '...he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports...'- Arthur C. Clarke, 1968. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3982 'He realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it...'- Vernor Vinge, 2006. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3981 'To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3980 'In their megalomania they thought to make the very sand beneath their feet intelligent...'- Stanislaw Lem, 1965. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3979 'I'm gonna do a hand-held Boink, real quick,' Littleberry said'- Richard Preston, 1997. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3978 'Earth's scientists solved the problem to some extent by devising rigid metallic clothing not unlike armor...'- Edmond Hamilton, 1932. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3977 'Had incorporated himself, in fact, under the laws of Vesta.'- Nat Schachner, 1941. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3976 '...transmitting to its manipulator, far away now, all that it ... saw with its minute vision tubes.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1936. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3974 'The skin-contact layer is porous.'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3973 Large corporations seem to be learning that people with autism can have unique strengths. (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3972 Is it extra with printed pepperoni? (SF in the News)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3971 A machine-mediated, fully immersive experiential environment. From the 1929 story The Chamber of Life (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2413 Edible insects raised fresh in your own kitchen! From the 1994 story Natulife (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2412 A public place for recharging electric cars. From the 1894 story A Journey In Other Worlds (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2411 Microminaturized vision for UAV's. From the 1936 story The Scarab (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2410 A method that gathers information from many sources to effectively surveil any citizen as effectively as if he was in a glass cell. From the 2005 story The Traveler (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2409 Closed circuit cameras that provided sight and sound to remote viewers of the Courtarena who wish to remain anonymous. From the 1977 story The Dosadi Experiment (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2408 A drug that party relieves the need for sleep. From the 1966 story Fantastic Voyage (Novel) (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2407 Water ice at the poles of the Moon. From the 1990 story The Ring of Charon (new Technovelgy item)http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2406