secret sci fi wishes

[Michaelaw]

I thought this might be fun...Think of anything sci-fi you've read or seen and the future tech that has been presented. What concept have you seen or read about that you feel would make your life kick-ass if it were available today? I'm going to say...The "Star trek Transporter!" If I could sleep in the extra hour and not have to deal with the daily drive, I would be ECSTATIC! Remember though...Everything comes with a price. Imagine everyone having a transporter in their home and CNN reports a jumper from the empire state building....Crowd control would be an understatement. If I could just use it for good things though..........

[tomorrowstreasures]

I thought this might be fun...Think of anything sci-fi you've read or seen and the future tech that has been presented. What concept have you seen or read about that you feel would make your life kick-ass if it were available today? I'm going to say...The "Star trek Transporter!" If I could sleep in the extra hour and not have to deal with the daily drive, I would be ECSTATIC! Remember though...Everything comes with a price. Imagine everyone having a transporter in their home and CNN reports a jumper from the empire state building....Crowd control would be an understatement. If I could just use it for good things though..........

from the movie The Handmaid's Tale http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/ - i think a handmaiden would have made my life much easier!!!!

[Michaelaw]

Thanks TT, I'd all but forgotten that flick... It needs to go into my collection! Haven't seen it in the stores as far back as I can remember. I remember thinking as I watched that I needed a handmaiden too! Our reasons are probably different though

[JAS_Photo]

That food replicator thingy on Star Trek that creates any thing you would like to eat. Instantly.

[Greg_Nuspel]

Time machine to go back and get that shot I missed because I wasn't ready for it.

[casil403]

Lol...from the 80's movie...Weird Science...I'd like to get a hold that computer program that makes the perfect man! It was a woman in the movie but I'm sure some minor adjustments could be made!...heck I'd even wear a jock strap on my head...lol!
Also the cool flying car-type thingys form Minority Report

[AntZ]

The medical devices they just wave over an injury and make everything better. I could use it on my back right now.

[tomorrowstreasures]

Maw - what a fun thread!

[Barefoot]

For me, it would be the Time Machine described by H.G. Wells. Selfishly, I would prefer that I be the only one to have the ability and would love to explorer a strange set of paradoxes similar to those that appear in the short story “By His Bootstraps” by Robert A. Heinlein.

[epatsellis]

T'pol, Seven of Nine, Starbuck from BSG, the list is long, but you get the idea....

On a more serious note, somebody from the religous right actually admitting that Feuerbach was correct, that "It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image."

As is so often a recurring theme in Asimov's work.