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the stuff of fiction | ||
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time travel, teleportation | ||
free healthcare for every nation | ||
intercontinental zettabit link | ||
rat submerged in air you can drink | ||
zero latency, faster than light | ||
stardate eternity, fish taught to write | ||
launched in a second, stopped on a dime | ||
arriving at noon, malacandran time | ||
journey to mars, the center of earth | ||
without spacesuits, for whatever it's worth | ||
total comfort, seat reclined | ||
on the way to planet nine | ||
trip to k-pax, walken communion | ||
meteor crater, starman reunion | ||
nemo nobody, cryostasis | ||
ten billionth flight to outer space is | ||
free for all passengers, no cost to ride | ||
surplus of everything, entropy died | ||
people congregate in fair city | ||
centers, living post-scarcity | ||
no owners, no renters, no debt collectors | ||
for there is no debt, no cause for defectors | ||
knowledge transferred, proliferated | ||
global population educated | ||
medical magic, the mind's potential | ||
alzheimers, dementia made nonessential | ||
diseases diverted, death defeated | ||
genome sequenced, spliced, completed, repeated | ||
isaac asimov brought back to life | ||
resurrect anybody, next up, his wife | ||
return of the dodo, all species befriend | ||
extinction never to be seen again | ||
flawless evolution, mammoth clone | ||
forget prosthetics, limbs regrown | ||
lungs rebuilt, heads transplanted | ||
foods pasteurized and never rancid | ||
nutrition, diet, puzzles solved | ||
protein shake contains dissolved | ||
vitamins, minerals, sugars, fats | ||
even made my hair grow back | ||
novelty molecules, stable arrangements | ||
made fresh at home as seasoning agents | ||
chemistry conquered, and with it, physics | ||
mathematical constants pay me a visit | ||
np-easy, log-log bound | ||
fifth dimension sights and sounds | ||
algebraic breakfast, quantum dessert | ||
daily discovery, breakthrough first | ||
sinusoidal poetry, the meanings in fields | ||
electromagnetic, temporal, deftly revealed | ||
through fourier transforms, the radio spectrum | ||
fluently spoken by kids in their bedroom | ||
alien lifeforms on the phone | ||
catch up, chit-chat, we're not alone | ||
cybernetic translator, perfectly clear | ||
kisses from terra, wish you were here | ||
peace with the xenomorph, love for the past | ||
everything built with intention to last | ||
shoes with soles that don't grow old | ||
guaranteed one stroll from pole to pole | ||
dwellings made from local clay | ||
built by one in just one day | ||
efficiently heated and passively cooled | ||
with nothing but architectural rules | ||
bottomless gigabytes to store all your stuff | ||
yet feeling content what you have is enough | ||
forcefield, atlantis, undersea dome | ||
heart of the volcano that i call home | ||
source of fire that does not smoke | ||
becomes invisible under this cloak | ||
tea, earl gray, hot from the replicator | ||
jauntily circumnavigate the equator | ||
phasers, sabers, blasters, beams | ||
einstein's ride on a wave of dreams | ||
fountain of youth, refreshingly cool | ||
hal ten thousand saves frank poole | ||
portal gun, gravity cannon | ||
blueprints courtesy of s. r. hadden | ||
everlasting gobstopper, endless canteen | ||
friends hanging out on tatooine | ||
plant matter, biofuel powers the land | ||
thirty three gigajoules from just half a gram | ||
of flower petals, falling, settled | ||
on long-disused mines for heavy metals | ||
forests recovered, trees replanted | ||
obsolete tools dismantled, recanted | ||
replaced with new ones as time passes by | ||
restoring the ozone in the sky | ||
hovercraft, jetpack, rocket shoes, wings | ||
robot assistant brings me my things | ||
processors purring, a gentle buzz | ||
i say computer, imagine, and it does | ||
silicone wafers led to free thinking | ||
water, water everywhere, all safe for drinking | ||
study with socrates, dine with his mother | ||
ted told us be excellent to each other | ||
telepathic mindwaves, toilets with bells | ||
and whistles and three seashells | ||
music broadcast across the galaxy | ||
lovely miss universe of diverse anatomy | ||
now so far this is all quite simplistic | ||
but if you want to hear something futuristic: | ||
how about a taskbar you can rearrange | ||
up down left right unconstrained | ||
audio signal carried on a line | ||
tip ring sleeve, timeless design | ||
such simplicity and ease | ||
let's make smarter things with these | ||
an interface whose color can be changed | ||
styled, freely themed if so deranged | ||
interoperable protocols sans garden walls | ||
compatible messages, encrypted, all | ||
words spoken softly on wires | ||
unsold, unhired by advertisers | ||
online, offline, hardware switch | ||
computed locally without a hitch | ||
a cable functions on my behalf | ||
facilitates the six-inch data path | ||
from point to point or box to box | ||
without dns and thirty hops | ||
options, menus, controls, the works | ||
no microservices, my gigahertz | ||
datamined data, mine, unconfined | ||
open standards, spec defined | ||
it just plugs in, it just connects | ||
i trust it works without defects | ||
and lest it break by my own mistake | ||
or wear with age, from old books we take | ||
a useful page, repair | ||
with parts acquired fair and square | ||
don't be fooled by malediction | ||
none of this is science fiction | ||
all could be ours, i've bated breath | ||
the technology just isn't quite there yet |