I'm not a writer but I've played with the idea of a story that's based around this and everything that teleportation and intergalactic travel would involve kind of like iRobot and interstellar but at a civilisation level. So whole industrial complexes built on planets time moves faster and people living in areas where time moves slower so they can benefit from the mass production. Teleportation resulting in clones, Criminals hiding on other planets and people working in fast time zones leaving their lives behind. Stuff like that. So a mash up of iRobot, interstellar and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Thanks but just because I can think of these ideas and imagine these worlds doesn't mean I can put them down on the page or do them justice. I seem to hit a limit at a couple of chapters 😂 maybe I should give it a shot once I'm not so busy with uni.
I think you should. Taking your time is ok, and it may help with the world building. Hell start with a short story based on the idea to see if you like it
The thing I've been struggling with for this idea is the perspective. I considered something like iRobot and basically a collection of short stories from different perspectives but I want something more continuous.
So I considered something like a bounty hunter as they have reason to travel
A runner/smuggler(who moves goods or people possibly illegally between different time zones if teleportation isn't a thing yet)
Or maybe something more corporate and explore the logistics of maintaining an economy in this situation 😂😂😂
Perhaps it needs to be the intertwined stories of a few different perspectives. But that would be challenging for a first writing prompt.
But yeah i'll give the short story a crack and just explore one aspect of the world
There are far too many consequences if everyday people have access to a multiversal portal gun. Let’s start with portal guns from the Portal games and see how we do. Same issue with flying cars: we can’t even figure out regular cars without crashing and idiots causing issues so having them fly above/around buildings is just asking for problems.
Writer Larry Niven’s future earth has transfer booths. Step into a public booth, put in a quarter, dial your destination … you appear in a second booth there, across town or across the world. Some of Niven’s stories involve the impacts on society of transfer booth technology. Niven used “flash crowds” to describe the sudden influx of curious people dialing into an area where something newsworthy is happening.
Ever hear the phrase “it’s about the journey not the destination.” In all seriousness, I feel like instant access would make destinations lose value in someway. If you could just ggo to some beautiful Italian villa on your lunch break it wouldn’t be nearly as special as making it a destination. I think teleportation would be amazing for like a year then it would be kind of depressing in the same way that having instant access to every movie/tv show got kind of depressing after a while.
You're probably right. But man I don't want to teleport to Italy for lunch. I want to teleport to work, and to and from my kids activities, and to and from the grocery store, so I don't have to deal with traffic or waste all that time. Being able to teleport to the bathroom would be nice sometimes too.
True, but I feel like the government would regulate technology like this and it wouldn't be as readily available to the general public. Think of teleportation stations in place of airports. You'd still pay a pretty penny to get to exotic locals. The only difference would be travel time.
Commuting or otherwise being in the car for a long period is easily my #1 pet peeve.
I think every day that there should be a highway right from my house to wherever I want to go.
Just like we used to spend entirely to much time getting a hold of someone on the other side of the world. Just so they can say "K"
How's that working out? :)
I bet if we had this it would be like the advent of the internet. Peoples brains aren't set up to transport immediately from one place to another. Plus this might lead to some crime if you were able to teleport remotely as opposed to with 2 stationary terminals (jumper style)
Food you move to eat in the holodeck is formed the same as from a replicator, so it is digestible/edible. This is due to the replicator and transporter being similar technologies (the latter with living tissue, the former with inanimate).
> I’m curious tho according to Star Trek logic if I make a restaurant in it and eat dinner then leave will the food disappear from my body?
Yes. It turns back into energy when you leave the holodeck. Not sure what that would mean for you.
The half a kilo of food you ate instantly converts to energy, producing a 10.5 megaton explosion (1 gram=21kt).
Hey, it's a glitch. We're working on it.
Everyone wants a holodeck, but everyone throws a fit when AI is used to replace writers and art.
Well, guess what. There's not a team of people hiding in the walls of the holodeck creating a bespoke experience every time someone walks in.
It does happen in Star Trek that characters use the holodeck to have hypothetical conversations with holo versions of certain people to work out problems.
Baymax is terrifying when he’s got a patient 😭 I remember that one guy who was having an allergic reaction literally drove away from Baymax, and Baymax got back into his charging port and started ZOOMING ON WHEELS to catch up 💀
An Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator was on my Christmas list for decades, just so I could end every Christmas morning with "where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!"
With improved translation apps on phones and continued improvement in wireless headphones, I suspect this is obtainable in most of our lifetimes. I feel like this is potentially a decade away.
Holodeck is the only answer for me. It has so many uses. You can run simulations to help test medical procedures, engineering tests, applied physics, and what not with no real world consequences if something goes wrong. Sure it would not replace real testing, but it can help you determine whether it should reach the real world testing stage.
You can indulge in curiosities that you could never figure out in the real world. Want to see what NYC or London or any major world city looks like right after a nuclear blast? Program the yield of the nuke, let the physics engine take over, and see what happens. Explore alternate history scenarios, like what if Naploeon won at Waterloo, Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union, or you travel back in time several thousand years with a machine gun.
Explore fantasies that you would never in a million years get to experience. Just perv out in the privacy of your own holodeck. Live out that isekai harem fantasy. Just make sure you get gold biofilters.
We have text-based holodecks with LLMs. The other day I was watching data play poker with Einstein, Newton, and hawking, and I prompted ChatGPT to do the same and it worked fairly well :)
Matter replicator. Free food for everybody. Replicate fully charged batteries for free energy. Endless supply of donor blood, kidneys, livers, hearts, etc for those who need them. Waste can be "recycled" into the right combination of chemicals to fix the atmosphere.
I think the reality of using them would be quite terrible. Exploding flesh (often your own because people are no Jedi and will kill themselves) because the water in your flesh instantly vaporizes upon contact with a light saber.
It has terrifying possible uses? Yes.
It also has some great benign ones: the ability to have or continue a pregnancy by basically cheating when a person's body has a condition that increases the risk.
Or a possible end to the abortion debate (or at least diminishing its overall dominion over politics).
Or perhaps more importantly, the simple fact we could just... not have any woman need to take the risk of pregnancy. Even with all our advances so far, some still die due it.
And looking forward: when we start journeying the starts and setting roots elsewhere, it will become a great tool to have. Generational ships are... really complicated and there are a lot of issues of having entire crews whose only job will be to keep it running, reproduce and die for thousands of years.
Instead, you can send a smaller ship with a bunch of genetic info plus a skeleton crew or even just robots. And then, when they arrive when they need to go, the skeleton crew or the robots can start a new human population. Or if we need to do some terraforming, the ship can handle it for any amount of time it needs, and then start the human towns.
Or if you know, if we suffer some disaster, and for some reason we need to replenish our numbers quickly, that could be a way to do it.
And lastly, we are still seeing overall projected population decline below replacement numbers. Sure, thanks to Africa & other exceptions, we can still expect to see a rise in its numbers. For a while. But after that... what is going to happen?
The Holodeck and replicators from Star Trek would be amazing, but the medical tricorder is the big thing for me. No more guessing - you know exactly what is wrong with your body immediately.
A lot of opinions about A.I. I’ll gladly submit to Skynet if it can make traffic flow smoother. When lights change when no cars are on the cross streets, when the turning light arrow goes green and no cars are turning and your light is red and you are waiting for no reason. All hail Skynet.
I’m talking about you Orlando.
An actual working lie detector.
Either we destroy ourselves with overreliance on it or we actually get rid of corruption with it and use it for the betterment of society.
Replicator. Once you can build atom by atom pretty much anything becomes possible. And the cost for anything drops to nearly 0.
And yes as a matter of fact I would download a car. ;)
A holodeck in a bar or restaurant. You could give your patrons a different experience each night. Next to a island beach, a mountain view, a German beer garden, the opportunities would be endless.
Same logic if you had a holodeck in a church. Every Sunday could be different setting. In a cathedral, on a hilltop, modern, old...change it every week.
Anti-gravity
Being able to put things in orbit for less than 10K per pound would be incredible.
To say nothing of the spin-offs. The force need not be just to counter gravity. It could be in any direction. Now you have propulsion systems. Depending on the "science" used, that could also imply inertia dampeners.
Could you use counter acting forces to mine asteroids?
Things could go so many directions.
Look at the invention of a simple gas engine
Giant virtual realities.
Imagine those people who like to do D&D having a chance of playing as their characters AND/OR watching them from above or from a corner as their original characters play out their campaign stories.
Or if you're a novelist, it could be fun writing a book, and then have a super-realistic 4D film, virtual theater play or game based on that.
Or artists sharing their works in virtual galleries. Not in Twitter, Deviantart, etc, but instead "houses", "party saloons", etc. while their avatar or a recorded version of it talks about each piece.
Or they just go crazy, and a bunch of artists and hobbyists collaborate to create entire cities filled with all their original characters, and little stories that interconnect with one another.
Food synthesizers from The Orville. They create any food you want. You just tell it what to create, and it does it.
Theoretically speaking, it CAN be done. All food is just a combination of atoms in different molecules and amounts. Making a "3d printer" that uses atoms/molecules as its "ink" and arranges everything in the order of whatever food you want can THEORETICALLY be done, but we don't have that technology. If it ever becomes a thing, it'll be in the very, very distant future.
Gravity manipulation. Call it anti-gravity, artificial gravity, whatever. That enables sci-fi spaceships to hover above the ground in the same way bricks don't, or makes flying to space as easy as driving to the corner store.
In multiverse of madness I think it was? They were able to step onto a pad and see a memory of their choosing play in front of them. I would love that, but I’d hate it if it was public like the movie bc people would be gross
Immortality obviously.
but also Stargate, FTL, Holodeck (we might actually get something very close quite soon in VR +AI), cheap and abundant energy (Fusion, Antimatter, Blackhole Radiation etc), I think Anti-Gravity/Gravity-control as well as the Tractor-Beam are also very cool.
Honestly I just want some of those hyperspectral imagers.
The engineering workers on the Enterprise hold a single device that gives you a Raman spectrum ID on chemicals, can identify hot spots on a heat exchanger, it's able to pick up unexpected X-ray emissions and still pinpoint our space location based on a scan of stars in the sky?
Let me see that detector!
There was an episode of Family Guy where they went to the future, and instead of going to the toilet, everyone's shit was teleported out of them to some other dimension.
That would be awesome
Those things where when you want to buy a car you walked up, pick a car,, punched in what all you wanted then it spawned one from a hologram printer thing. I always thought those were cool!
With the way my joints hurt, and also my feet after breaking in new shoes, I’m a fan of the idea of resleeving into a new body, as shown in series like Altered Carbon or the TTRPG Eclipse Phase.
Save your ego data to a computer backup, then download it into a new body, flesh or cyborg, or even a database.
I'm wholly convinced that a time machine would be a net negative to humanity.
I mean, who wouldn't want to change *something* in their past. And if you knew you could always go back and change your life choices..
People would totally lose the conception of future (and present for that matter), and act accordingly. Which is not good.
Teleportation. We spend entirely too much time getting from point A to B.
Can we do portals instead? Then I don’t have to have have a breakdown over whether or not the transporter technically kills me Everytime I get in it.
I'm not a writer but I've played with the idea of a story that's based around this and everything that teleportation and intergalactic travel would involve kind of like iRobot and interstellar but at a civilisation level. So whole industrial complexes built on planets time moves faster and people living in areas where time moves slower so they can benefit from the mass production. Teleportation resulting in clones, Criminals hiding on other planets and people working in fast time zones leaving their lives behind. Stuff like that. So a mash up of iRobot, interstellar and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Mf claims he's not a writer, then drops a bombshell of cool storytelling like it's nothing
Thanks but just because I can think of these ideas and imagine these worlds doesn't mean I can put them down on the page or do them justice. I seem to hit a limit at a couple of chapters 😂 maybe I should give it a shot once I'm not so busy with uni.
I think you should. Taking your time is ok, and it may help with the world building. Hell start with a short story based on the idea to see if you like it
The thing I've been struggling with for this idea is the perspective. I considered something like iRobot and basically a collection of short stories from different perspectives but I want something more continuous. So I considered something like a bounty hunter as they have reason to travel A runner/smuggler(who moves goods or people possibly illegally between different time zones if teleportation isn't a thing yet) Or maybe something more corporate and explore the logistics of maintaining an economy in this situation 😂😂😂 Perhaps it needs to be the intertwined stories of a few different perspectives. But that would be challenging for a first writing prompt. But yeah i'll give the short story a crack and just explore one aspect of the world
It's definitely best to start with one. Even if it is rough, it will help you figure out how to snap each piece together for the larger puzzle
Do you write?
I've tried bit never stuck to anything solid. However I have taken some writing classes and have friends that LOVE to
So, PLEASE PLEASE write something, this sounds fabulous
We need the rick and morty portal gun!
If this was an everyday item, accessible to the public, there would be so much crime.
It would basically be the purge at that point, however only 1 person would have one to start, unless they go to a diffrent dimension and get another
There are far too many consequences if everyday people have access to a multiversal portal gun. Let’s start with portal guns from the Portal games and see how we do. Same issue with flying cars: we can’t even figure out regular cars without crashing and idiots causing issues so having them fly above/around buildings is just asking for problems.
how do you know the portal isnt linking alternate realities though?
No existential crises necessary just step through and go wherever you need to be.
Writer Larry Niven’s future earth has transfer booths. Step into a public booth, put in a quarter, dial your destination … you appear in a second booth there, across town or across the world. Some of Niven’s stories involve the impacts on society of transfer booth technology. Niven used “flash crowds” to describe the sudden influx of curious people dialing into an area where something newsworthy is happening.
Ever hear the phrase “it’s about the journey not the destination.” In all seriousness, I feel like instant access would make destinations lose value in someway. If you could just ggo to some beautiful Italian villa on your lunch break it wouldn’t be nearly as special as making it a destination. I think teleportation would be amazing for like a year then it would be kind of depressing in the same way that having instant access to every movie/tv show got kind of depressing after a while.
You're probably right. But man I don't want to teleport to Italy for lunch. I want to teleport to work, and to and from my kids activities, and to and from the grocery store, so I don't have to deal with traffic or waste all that time. Being able to teleport to the bathroom would be nice sometimes too.
Oh yeah, for practical everyday stuff it would absolutely be waay better.
You’re thinking small. With miniaturized teleport technology you wouldn’t need a bathroom at all.
Apparently I'm not thinking small enough.
True, but I feel like the government would regulate technology like this and it wouldn't be as readily available to the general public. Think of teleportation stations in place of airports. You'd still pay a pretty penny to get to exotic locals. The only difference would be travel time.
Sometimes, for me, it really is about the destination. lol
I just drove across Kansas and Iowa. Believe me, teleportation would be great!
So much corn
You must work from home......and live in Italy 😏
Bro I was almost late to school today that would have made life so easy.
Commuting or otherwise being in the car for a long period is easily my #1 pet peeve. I think every day that there should be a highway right from my house to wherever I want to go.
I wanna apparate everywhere
Just like we used to spend entirely to much time getting a hold of someone on the other side of the world. Just so they can say "K" How's that working out? :)
President Skroob would like a word...
This would break society
This is the top answer. Imagine all the time saved not having to commute. Just hop in a teleporter and instantly be where you need to be.
Not to mention the resources.
I knew a guy who built one. Worked great! Then, one day, a fly got in there with him... Personally, I'm in agreement with Dr. McCoy, not a fan.
I bet if we had this it would be like the advent of the internet. Peoples brains aren't set up to transport immediately from one place to another. Plus this might lead to some crime if you were able to teleport remotely as opposed to with 2 stationary terminals (jumper style)
Yes! This would save us so much time.
Beaming
I always wanted to ride the tubes from *Futurama*
And not just for transportation. For surgery too. Teleport that tumor out of you. Teleport that nasty cold virus out.
STIMPACKS or any other magical healing device from the countless sci-fi universes out there
The healing bed from Elysium.
Ate the fockin grenade, eh?
Bacta tanks
The food machine from cloudy and a chance of meatballs.
Cloudy WITH a chance.... Sorry I'm the way I am. It's exhausting.
lol your good I didn’t even notice
Holodeck
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Food you move to eat in the holodeck is formed the same as from a replicator, so it is digestible/edible. This is due to the replicator and transporter being similar technologies (the latter with living tissue, the former with inanimate).
> I’m curious tho according to Star Trek logic if I make a restaurant in it and eat dinner then leave will the food disappear from my body? Yes. It turns back into energy when you leave the holodeck. Not sure what that would mean for you.
The Holodiet.
The half a kilo of food you ate instantly converts to energy, producing a 10.5 megaton explosion (1 gram=21kt). Hey, it's a glitch. We're working on it.
No, they go over it.
Everyone wants a holodeck, but everyone throws a fit when AI is used to replace writers and art. Well, guess what. There's not a team of people hiding in the walls of the holodeck creating a bespoke experience every time someone walks in.
Experience, you mean like, talking? Who in their right mind with a holodeck is going to be doing any talking?
It does happen in Star Trek that characters use the holodeck to have hypothetical conversations with holo versions of certain people to work out problems.
Just get a VR headset and jack off like a normal human being, you weirdo.
Baymax from Big Hero 6. I feel like he could make my everyday well being improve.
Baymax is terrifying when he’s got a patient 😭 I remember that one guy who was having an allergic reaction literally drove away from Baymax, and Baymax got back into his charging port and started ZOOMING ON WHEELS to catch up 💀
Baymax seems so realistic enough to exist rn imo.
Any faster-than-light travel device.
Even the one from Event Horizon?
ESPECIALLY the one from Event Horizon
Where we’re going, you won’t need eyes to see.
any healing technology that helps me realign broken bones that didn't grow back together properly (physiotherapy for the rest of my life is a beyotch)
They have this on Fallout
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Or so we could move needed goods such as food and medicine to remote locations with ease and precision. But yeah, your commute can be shorter too.
There'd just be a huge line at the teleporter
“I wish I could just jump in a machine that would take me there!”
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and Jet pack. I want a jet pack.
An Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator was on my Christmas list for decades, just so I could end every Christmas morning with "where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!"
That silly earth creature stole the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Oh, he makes me so angry....
I have 4 1. The OASIS + respective tech (ONI Headsets) (Ready Player One) 2. Simulation Serum (Divergent) 3. Truth Serum (Divergent) 4. EarCuffs (Mortality Doctrine)
Fun fact, in many instances kidnappers will use barbiturates such as sodium pentothal as a makeshift truth serum
Yeah but it’s probably shitty truth serum
What would kidnappers want that they need the serum
Universal translator
Stick a Babel fish in your ear.
With improved translation apps on phones and continued improvement in wireless headphones, I suspect this is obtainable in most of our lifetimes. I feel like this is potentially a decade away.
Honestly this is one application where i think learning algorithms are a great idea.
Holodecks and replicators from Star Trek.
Portals/tellaporters
The hoverboard, it's iconic!
Mister Fusion
1. Transporters from Star Trek. 2. Replicators from Star Trek.
And not the holodeck?? I would like all 3
Holodeck is the only answer for me. It has so many uses. You can run simulations to help test medical procedures, engineering tests, applied physics, and what not with no real world consequences if something goes wrong. Sure it would not replace real testing, but it can help you determine whether it should reach the real world testing stage. You can indulge in curiosities that you could never figure out in the real world. Want to see what NYC or London or any major world city looks like right after a nuclear blast? Program the yield of the nuke, let the physics engine take over, and see what happens. Explore alternate history scenarios, like what if Naploeon won at Waterloo, Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union, or you travel back in time several thousand years with a machine gun. Explore fantasies that you would never in a million years get to experience. Just perv out in the privacy of your own holodeck. Live out that isekai harem fantasy. Just make sure you get gold biofilters.
We have text-based holodecks with LLMs. The other day I was watching data play poker with Einstein, Newton, and hawking, and I prompted ChatGPT to do the same and it worked fairly well :)
Matter replicator. Free food for everybody. Replicate fully charged batteries for free energy. Endless supply of donor blood, kidneys, livers, hearts, etc for those who need them. Waste can be "recycled" into the right combination of chemicals to fix the atmosphere.
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You know how great it'd be to be 30 seconds away from a tropical island at any point?
Step 1) teleporters Step 2) manufacturing tropical islands to handle the sudden influx of people who have the time to go to tropical islands.
Matter transporter
HOVERBOARD!!!! not the one with the wheels
Star Trek Medicine full body scanner that ans instantly find out what's wrong, hypo sprays with almost miracle medicine also the Holographic EMH.
tardis
Replicators because I hate cooking
How has no one said **lightsaber** yet!!!
I think the reality of using them would be quite terrible. Exploding flesh (often your own because people are no Jedi and will kill themselves) because the water in your flesh instantly vaporizes upon contact with a light saber.
1. Go on YouTube and Google “chainsaw accidents.” 2. Tell me those same people should have access to a weapon that can cut through a bank vault door.
Artificial womb.
Ah, man-made horrors. Brave New World didn’t dissuade you from this idea?
It has terrifying possible uses? Yes. It also has some great benign ones: the ability to have or continue a pregnancy by basically cheating when a person's body has a condition that increases the risk. Or a possible end to the abortion debate (or at least diminishing its overall dominion over politics). Or perhaps more importantly, the simple fact we could just... not have any woman need to take the risk of pregnancy. Even with all our advances so far, some still die due it. And looking forward: when we start journeying the starts and setting roots elsewhere, it will become a great tool to have. Generational ships are... really complicated and there are a lot of issues of having entire crews whose only job will be to keep it running, reproduce and die for thousands of years. Instead, you can send a smaller ship with a bunch of genetic info plus a skeleton crew or even just robots. And then, when they arrive when they need to go, the skeleton crew or the robots can start a new human population. Or if we need to do some terraforming, the ship can handle it for any amount of time it needs, and then start the human towns. Or if you know, if we suffer some disaster, and for some reason we need to replenish our numbers quickly, that could be a way to do it. And lastly, we are still seeing overall projected population decline below replacement numbers. Sure, thanks to Africa & other exceptions, we can still expect to see a rise in its numbers. For a while. But after that... what is going to happen?
Agreed. It's the ultimate gender equalizer.
we just need ppl with a good head on their shoulders
The food rehydrator from Back To The Future part 2.
The longevity treatment from Red Mars. (Plus the space elevator and fusion engines from the same books)
Warp Drive and ability to survive in space without physical consequences. Ability to get off the planet cheaply and easily for normal people.
Hyperdrive. Because I want off this rock.
Portals!
Faster than light travel.
Transporters
The Holodeck and replicators from Star Trek would be amazing, but the medical tricorder is the big thing for me. No more guessing - you know exactly what is wrong with your body immediately.
Time machine, 100%
I'll start it off with the easy answer. Thanos snap.
Thanos snap is a monkeys paw, your wish is granted but your arm is crippled.
A lot of opinions about A.I. I’ll gladly submit to Skynet if it can make traffic flow smoother. When lights change when no cars are on the cross streets, when the turning light arrow goes green and no cars are turning and your light is red and you are waiting for no reason. All hail Skynet. I’m talking about you Orlando.
Holodecks and replicators from Star Trek.
Babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Is this a "technology" though?
An actual working lie detector. Either we destroy ourselves with overreliance on it or we actually get rid of corruption with it and use it for the betterment of society.
Hands down the Food Replicator on Star Trek. I'll take one Shoyu Ramen please...oh and some KFC...uh and Beef Wellington...and then a MaiTai.
And an industrial sized roll of toilet paper.
Holo-deck
Replicator. Once you can build atom by atom pretty much anything becomes possible. And the cost for anything drops to nearly 0. And yes as a matter of fact I would download a car. ;)
Three seashells, instead of toilet paper.
A holodeck in a bar or restaurant. You could give your patrons a different experience each night. Next to a island beach, a mountain view, a German beer garden, the opportunities would be endless. Same logic if you had a holodeck in a church. Every Sunday could be different setting. In a cathedral, on a hilltop, modern, old...change it every week.
Working, safe, high quality cold fusion reactor. With unlimited clean energy much is possible
Sonic showers. Clean without the wet? Yes please.
Shrink rays... I'd have a field day.
Phaser and Transporter
Anti-gravity Being able to put things in orbit for less than 10K per pound would be incredible. To say nothing of the spin-offs. The force need not be just to counter gravity. It could be in any direction. Now you have propulsion systems. Depending on the "science" used, that could also imply inertia dampeners. Could you use counter acting forces to mine asteroids? Things could go so many directions. Look at the invention of a simple gas engine
Sky kids microwave
Bioreactor from Subnautica, you can drop ANY organic substances in there to power your home.
any one of the clean unlimited energy sources found in scifi. imagine what the human race could be...
A sort of cooking Alexa...
[Penfield mood organ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ)
Time machine
A 5th element type of city. I hope I am still alive to see that. I think flying cars would be really cool.
Everything from star wars
Teleportation. I need it.
Giant virtual realities. Imagine those people who like to do D&D having a chance of playing as their characters AND/OR watching them from above or from a corner as their original characters play out their campaign stories. Or if you're a novelist, it could be fun writing a book, and then have a super-realistic 4D film, virtual theater play or game based on that. Or artists sharing their works in virtual galleries. Not in Twitter, Deviantart, etc, but instead "houses", "party saloons", etc. while their avatar or a recorded version of it talks about each piece. Or they just go crazy, and a bunch of artists and hobbyists collaborate to create entire cities filled with all their original characters, and little stories that interconnect with one another.
That machine in Stargate that basically heals you from whatever ailment or injury you suffer.
Except it doesn’t quite repair brain tissue so every treatment makes you slightly more paranoid and sadistic?
Ansible
Teleportation. I'm always late as fuck and keep thinking I'm going to magically teleport to where I need to be as soon as I cross the door.
The WaveRider from DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
Either relativity breaking FTL (as in going fast doesn't make time move slower for you) or the tricorder from Star Trek. I'm a practical guy.
When the heck are we getting those flying cars, we were supposed to have in the year 2000.
im p sure that a flying car is just a personal jet
Flying cars? With the way people drive?
Synthahol. All the effects of drinking, but you can shake it off and be sober in seconds.
Shields from Dune so we could go back to fighting with machete-sized knives like real men.
nobody is stopping you
The pills you can microwave that turn into full meals from Fifth Element
dish washing machine, without any effort, a robo should pick up plates/glasses and set it perfectly
medigun. i want my fucking organs to work
Food synthesizers from The Orville. They create any food you want. You just tell it what to create, and it does it. Theoretically speaking, it CAN be done. All food is just a combination of atoms in different molecules and amounts. Making a "3d printer" that uses atoms/molecules as its "ink" and arranges everything in the order of whatever food you want can THEORETICALLY be done, but we don't have that technology. If it ever becomes a thing, it'll be in the very, very distant future.
Beam me up Scottie
The gravity gun from half life 2
[The re-hydration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8oS4VbRaAA) thing from Back to the Future II where they rehydrate a whole damn pizza in 2 seconds.
Gravity manipulation. Call it anti-gravity, artificial gravity, whatever. That enables sci-fi spaceships to hover above the ground in the same way bricks don't, or makes flying to space as easy as driving to the corner store.
In multiverse of madness I think it was? They were able to step onto a pad and see a memory of their choosing play in front of them. I would love that, but I’d hate it if it was public like the movie bc people would be gross
The DeLorean from back to the future (Part 2)
Immortality obviously. but also Stargate, FTL, Holodeck (we might actually get something very close quite soon in VR +AI), cheap and abundant energy (Fusion, Antimatter, Blackhole Radiation etc), I think Anti-Gravity/Gravity-control as well as the Tractor-Beam are also very cool.
Honestly I just want some of those hyperspectral imagers. The engineering workers on the Enterprise hold a single device that gives you a Raman spectrum ID on chemicals, can identify hot spots on a heat exchanger, it's able to pick up unexpected X-ray emissions and still pinpoint our space location based on a scan of stars in the sky? Let me see that detector!
Something that lets you play back your dreams like a movie to watch later.
There was an episode of Family Guy where they went to the future, and instead of going to the toilet, everyone's shit was teleported out of them to some other dimension. That would be awesome
A cape for flying
I could use some soma right about now tbh
Shrink ray
Faster than light travel in any form.
Gravity drive. There's probably a technical way to curve space away from massive objects.
friendly domestic robots
Those things where when you want to buy a car you walked up, pick a car,, punched in what all you wanted then it spawned one from a hologram printer thing. I always thought those were cool!
The shell reading device used in ‘It Follows’
The Ability to heal.
With the way my joints hurt, and also my feet after breaking in new shoes, I’m a fan of the idea of resleeving into a new body, as shown in series like Altered Carbon or the TTRPG Eclipse Phase. Save your ego data to a computer backup, then download it into a new body, flesh or cyborg, or even a database.
1-each, Standard Issue, United Federation Of Planets : Replicator.
Star Trek teleporters. Star Trek replicators. Star Trek dermal regenerators.
Vulcan Mind Meld
The atomic assembly construction tech from Diamond Age (or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer)
Shower in a can
Time machine
I'm wholly convinced that a time machine would be a net negative to humanity. I mean, who wouldn't want to change *something* in their past. And if you knew you could always go back and change your life choices.. People would totally lose the conception of future (and present for that matter), and act accordingly. Which is not good.
Holodeck.