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1. Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 15:16:59 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

   "One of the things I love about science fiction is how it inspires real inventions."
   "Like what?"
   "Star Trek Communicators inspired early mobile phones. The stasis pods we use for long-distance travel is another example."
   "They had those in Star Trek?"
   "No, in Pokémon."
   #MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

   • Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 16:29:12 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

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     • Denian

     @Denian Pokeballs are very advanced devices that can shrink living creatures from a distance, put them in stasis, and then bring them back. How is that not science fiction?
     Not to mention the cloning facility of the first movie, it the mind transfer in Detective Pikachu. It's all SF.

   • denian@chaos.social's status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 16:29:15 UTC Denian

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     @MicroSFF Huh. Pokémon being called Science Fiction... Now I've seen everything.

   • Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 06:44:35 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

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     • RolfTheViking

     @RolfTheViking Yes, but you don't get inspired by the earliest instance that exist, but by the one you encounter and which makes an impression on you.
     Communicators existed in SF before Star Trek, but it was that one that inspired the design of Motorola's StarTac mobile phone.

   • rolftheviking@snabelen.no's status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 06:44:39 UTC RolfTheViking

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     @MicroSFF Stasispods are way, way, way older than Pokemon in SF