What technology/spell/magic item from sci-fi/fantasy worlds you would NEVER use if they existed?
You know sometimes we're reading a story/watching a movie or series and then we see something that makes us go "That would be cool if it was real". But there are some things that, after giving some thought you conclude that there's no way you'd ever use in real life.
Let me give an example... Star Trek teleportation. It's cool, isn't it? You just disappear from point A and reappear in point B in no time. Well except for the fact it's not you, it's a copy. The original "you" was disintegrated by the machine that instantly created an exact copy somewhere else. Even the series acknowledges this in that episode where Commander Riker's teleportation flow is deflected in a planet's atmosphere and in the end there are two Rikers, one aboard the Enterprise and another one on the planet's surface. Seriously I'm not in such a hurry to get anywhere to accept being murdered and duplicated. I'll go by shuttle if nobody has any problem with that
Let me give an example... Star Trek teleportation. It's cool, isn't it? You just disappear from point A and reappear in point B in no time. Well except for the fact it's not you, it's a copy. The original "you" was disintegrated by the machine that instantly created an exact copy somewhere else. Even the series acknowledges this in that episode where Commander Riker's teleportation flow is deflected in a planet's atmosphere and in the end there are two Rikers, one aboard the Enterprise and another one on the planet's surface. Seriously I'm not in such a hurry to get anywhere to accept being murdered and duplicated. I'll go by shuttle if nobody has any problem with that
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Being pleasantly surprised is umm pleasant.
Knowing how and why you will die or be brutally hurt while also knowing there is nothing you can do to prevent it is a downer. You’ll either spend your entire life going crazy attempting to alter it, or just count the seconds knowing what you do to that point will be meaningless.
They're good for blowing stuff up, but in a world without inherently and provably Chaotic Evil orcs roaming the countryside, that's not all that useful.
you're welcome, or not.
Free will is something sacred to me.
Useless, quickslot wasting placeholder. Can't even serve as a proper emergency ration. Feh...
Also, Twitter.
Don't use it now and would never use it in a sci-fi setting either. And I'm sure something like that will appear in a sci-fi setting.
Anything in "Prometheus."
It's what gives humans their advantage in the universe.
Personally, I'm avoiding anything that says "summon [evil sounding name here]" as we all know exactly how that ends.
This is a technology I’d rather humanity lived without.
Bear in mind that self-driving cars are already on the road right now, and over the years, they've already proven to be statistically safer than human drivers--and that's when the technology is in its early, less advanced stages. They're going to be even safer as the technology develops further.
Statistics have already shown that self-driving cars are better drivers than people. The only kind of self-driving car that's more dangerous than the human kind is the semi-autonomous kind, which just encourages the human to not pay attention.