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We get it. The point of science fiction is usually not to promote the use of shiny new tools, but to heed warning against their use. But we have to wonder: What if said shiny new tools are really, really cool? Here are nine sci-fi inventions that we sort of wish were real, in spite of their possibility to ruin humanity as we know it:
ansible. The tool is a lunchbox-sized communication device that allows for instantaneous transmission of messages. Writes Le Guin, "doesn't involve radio waves, or any form of energy. The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable."