- Blast off: Doc Smith (1937)
- Cyberspace: William Gibson (1982)
- Robot: Karel Čapek (1920) - it's interesting to note that this comes from a Czech term for slave and was once pronounced more like robit.
- Terraform: Jack Williamson (1942)
- Atomic Bomb: HG Wells (1914)
- Android: Ephraim Chambers (freaking 1728)
- Spaceship: Pall Mall Gazette (from an 1880 review of Percy Greg's novel Across the Zodiac)
- Virus (as in a computer virus): Gregory Benford 1970
Kinetic sculpture somewhere in western Ohio. I'm not sure where - I was really lost. |
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