Technologies That Will Never See The Light of Day

Lightsabers

I mean, lightsabers are the prime example that Star Wars is more fantasy in space than it is science fiction with fantasy elements. Harvard and MIT looked into the idea of developing a lightsaber, or at least something that looked like it, and discovered that since photonic molecules have no mass, they would be unable to interact with one another. In short: they’d never be able to form a blade.

Digital Immortality

Being able to upload one’s brain to a hard drive or even the internet has been the trope of many science fiction stories, but it’ll remain nothing more than that.

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