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  2. List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction

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    The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...

  3. Category:Fictional technology - Wikipedia

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    This page is a listing of articles about fictional technologies and technological devices featured in works of fiction. See also: Category:Hypothetical technology and Category:Science fiction Subcategories

  4. Technology in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    As science fiction emerged during the era of Industrial Revolution, the increased presence of machines in everyday life and their role in shaping of the society was a major influence on the genre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It appeared as a major element of the Proto SF , represented by machines and gadgets in works of Jules Verne , George Griffith , H ...

  5. Space elevators in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Kris Longknife [1] series by Mike Shepherd.Space elevators are ubiquitous across the known galaxy. 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), novel by Arthur C. Clarke.The possibility of a space elevator is realised after a groundbreaking discovery that Jupiter's core (now in fragments around the orbit of Lucifer, the small sun formed by the implosion of Jupiter) had been a solid diamond; as the hardest ...

  6. Instrumentality of Mankind - Wikipedia

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    After attaining power and the expansion of humans in space, they eventually entered a somewhat stagnant phase in which a fixed lifespan of four hundred years was imposed on the human inhabitants of the planets where the Instrumentality directly ruled, all the hard physical labor was done by rightless animal-derived "underpeople", and children ...

  7. Artificial intelligence in fiction - Wikipedia

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    HAL 9000 is the lethal onboard computer of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Many science fiction rebellion stories followed, one of the best-known being Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the artificially intelligent onboard computer HAL 9000 lethally malfunctions on a space mission and kills the entire crew except the spaceship ...

  8. Necromancer (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Guild embraces a philosophy of destruction with the hope of making space for the rise of a new evolutionary form of humanity. The instruments in their goals are the Alternate Laws or Alternate Forces. Formain is led to the Chantry Guild after encountering Destruct, a book written by Walter Blunt, the Guild's leader. Formain enlists under ...

  9. Planetfall (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Planetfall is a 2015 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman.It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in November 2015 by Roc Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in paperback in February 2018.