Trying to speak to wild animals and/or completely disconnected human tribes may be the closest thing humans currently have to a real-life simulation of what it might be like to try and speak to aliens (and so far, our performance has been extremely mixed).
Scuba diving is like flying a blimp. Air is considered a fluid and scuba divers can inhale and exhale to control their specific buoyancy in water much like a hot air balloon or blimp controls gasses inside to control their buoyancy in air.
Fully autonomous vehicles will never be a reality since human error shifts blame away from the manufacturer.
In retrospect, Mr. McGuire's advice to Benjamin regarding plastics in The Graduate could be a great prologue to an apocalyptic story.
If modern society crumbles, you won’t have to worry about your credit score anymore.
It's possible that time just froze for 1,000 years as you're reading this, but you didn't notice.
Billions of people today carry pocketwatches full of precious-metal filigree.
Most people don't wear sweat pants when they plan to actually get sweaty.
Some people are so desperate to make an impact, they don't care about how negative it is.
The future nostalgia of today’s lo-fi games will be due to developer choice, not by technical necessity.
"Body count" can either be the result of the act of ending a life, or the act of creating life.
By fictional standards, we’re in the multiverse. In our universe dwells every fictional universe. A universe full of a potentially infinite number smaller universes? That’s a multiverse if I’ve ever heard of one.
We blame algorithms for serving us junk and slop... but if we want them to stop doing that, we need to stop engaging with junk and slop.