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What's the first appearance of monomolecular wire or nanofilament (extremely thin, superstrong, hence cuts almost anything)?
There's a pivotal scene in Larry Niven's short story, "The Borderland of Sol" in which Beowulf Shaeffer uses a length of Sinclair monofilament -- a monomolecular wire as strong as molecular ...
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Are there signs that the Matrix holds any technological resemblance to out-of-universe computers?
I've read on several occasions here a tendency to assume that the Matrix as a technology is operated much like out-of-universe (i.e. "our world") computers: Assuming the Matrix runs in a ...
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Short story about aliens who use technology to surpass psychic abilities
I seem to remember the story being named "Limiting Factor", but the descriptions do not match.
Earth explorers find a planet where here are crocodile-like beings lazing in a sunny swamp. Suddenly a ...
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Story about glass particles with memory
I'm looking for a story I read about 40 years ago in which there is memory retaining glass... At first people place sheets of the glass in lovely places, so that it can be fitted into a window frame ...
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