10.04.2010

SIDENOTE: SCIENCE FICTION

I had a thought last night while I was driving home and the roads were totally empty. I had the windows open and it was very cold. It was a half finished thought, and I present it here as such.

Have you ever read a shitty science fiction novel in which they introduce some kind of hypothetical device/thing without explaining what it really is, but it has a name which evokes what it looks like and or does?

Just making shit up, but, for example:

Nutrition cube
Light gun
Hover bike
Crystal city

I had some kind of breakthrough last night wherein I told myself that emotions, and how we name and explain them, works in the same way.
I immediately didn't know what I was talking about but thought I might be on to something.

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