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Fictional computers may be depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. Fictional computers may be referred to with a made-up manufacturer's brand name and model number or a nickname. This is a list of computers or fictional artificial intelligences that have appeared in notable works of fiction. The ...
unicorn in the short story The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber: Budo novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks [4] Dorothy Spinner's imaginary friends: comics published by DC Comics: Hobbes comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson [3] The Imaginary Friend book The Hole In The Sum Of My Parts by Matt Harvey [3] Jimmy ...
Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...
Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. This isn’t run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating ...
The story's basis was an 1895 newspaper report that Robert James Lees had used psychic powers to track the Ripper to the home of a London physician. [ 44 ] Jack the Ripper (1959), produced by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker and written by Jimmy Sangster , is loosely based on Leonard Matters ' theory that the Ripper was an avenging doctor. [ 45 ]
By Jonathan Stempel and AJ Vicens (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Wednesday against five alleged members of Scattered Spider, a loose-knit community of hackers suspected ...