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Originally Posted by Maximum7
I'm working on an RPG style thing with cards and I need an A-Z list of future technologies or inventions. I already have my own list but a lot of my ideas are too generic. For A I have Antimatter Rocket. I'm looking for out of the box, creative future ideas. Technobabble is somewhat acceptable but try not to get too silly. Thanks
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Hm, just skimming my collection titles and pulling stuff from memory classics (not all of them still *future* tech I guess) include
AI, Android, Automedic, Ansible, Antigravity, Antiagathics, Air Car
Beanstalk, blaster, braintapes
contragravity, chronoscope, corpsicle, collapsium, cyborg, cyberspace, cold sleep, cloaking device, carniculture vat
duplicator, death ray, deflector shield, disruptor, drop shaft, dyson sphere
escape pod, eugenics, electrothermal cannon, ectopia
FTL, flitter, food pill, food synthesizer, force field, feely
generation ship, gate, genemod, graser gravitics, gravity plate, grav screen
holotank, hive mind, hyperspace, hypnomech, hypercoagulin
impervium, ion drive, ion cannon, invisibility drug or device
jack, jump drive
knowledge base, knowbot, key card
laser, light sail. library chip, lethe drug
matter transmitter, mecha, mindshield, moonbase, monofilament
nanite, newspeak, nova bomb, needler, neural implant, nerve disruptor
pantropic techniques, parahuman, plas-skin, planetbuster, plasteel, positronic brain, psi catalyst
ramscoop, replicant, robot, railgun, retina scanner, revivification
shuttlecraft, skimmer, slidewalk, starship, spy beam, stunner, stasis field, slow glass
time machine, transporter, tractor beam, tight beam, tri-D, terraforming, thermal superconductor
ultrawave, uplift, universal translator, upslink, undersea dome
vacc suit, videophone, virus, voice analyzer, verdictor, vapor canteen
waldo, wireheading, walker
x: tough one, mostly technobabble compounds based on xeno* x-rays or Xerox rather than anything obvious.
youth drug, yeast [something] enjoyed some popularity as a food of the future before it quite penetrated American consciousness that it wasn't new.
zeta pinch fusion, zoomorphic robot