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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