In Liking What You See: A Documentary ,by Ted Chiang, there is a device that shuts off the aspects of someone’s brain that judges others on facial beauty, called calliagnosia.
In reality, we have medicines such as antidepressants, Prozac, and Zoloft that change chemicals in an individual’s brain.
A movie based on a story by George Lucas called, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, features spaceships that are able to travel into different galaxies.
The Mars Exploration Rover created by NASA was successfully landed in Mars in 2004, and has been exploring the surface of Mars since.
In the book “Cinder”, written by Marissa Meyer, a young woman named Cinder has cyborg implants in her leg because she lost her leg.
A Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) robotic suit was
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Scientists have genetically engineered pigs, called Popeye Pigs, which contain a spinach gene making them healthier to eat.
The book “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury features characters that have more of an emotional connection to TV rather than people.
In reality, applications have been invented to replace the physical presence of another human such as Netflix, computerized chat rooms, etc.
“The Giver”, a book by Lois Lowry, contains a utopian society where everyone contributes to society.
Utopian societies exist in modern day society such as, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
In the book “Gathering Blue”, by Lois Lowry, civilization is primitive because of an unnamed disaster that took away advanced technology.
In reality, this occurred in 1945, when an atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, causing a holocaust to citizens in the area.
By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benet,is set in a post-apocalyptic society where civilization is not exposed to technology.
Civilizations exist in reality that refrain from the exposure of technology; an example is the Surma Tribe in