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What science fiction technology should be open source?

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Science fiction ranges from complete fabrications to some surprisingly accurate visions for the future. What tool, device, object, or other item from your science fiction library do you hope, or even expect, to one day find an open source version of? We posed this question to our staff and team of community moderators here at Opensource.com and got back some really creative and interesting responses. Here are some of our favorites: read more

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Comments (10)

jdixon ·
Would you trust disassembling and reassembling your molecular structure to closed source software?
penguinist ·
Would you trust your life to a pacemaker with closed proprietary firmware?

(not really under the category of science fiction)
jdixon ·
> Would you trust your life to a pacemaker with closed proprietary firmware?

Not if I had any choice in the matter, but is the government going to give me a choice?
JaseP ·
A) I wouldn't trust my molecules being disassembled, period,... Since re-assembly violates the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and even if it didn't would take upwards of a million plus years to complete it's operations...

B) If it were possible, I certainly wouldn't want the software to be proprietary.
maxxedout ·
That would give a whole new meaning to "The Blue Screen of Death"!
notbob ·
You go first. ;)
penguinist ·
Dang it Jim, I'm not gonna have _my_ molecules scattered across the universe!
BernardSwiss ·
> Dang it Jim, I'm not gonna have _my_ molecules scattered across the universe!

Don't worry about it -- this is the improved version. It's still under warranty!

Besides... Tech Support is pretty good about applying any patches, promptly.

gus3 ·
Actually, Schroedinger's Equation says your waveform is already scattered.

And Murphy's Law says there's nothing you can do about it.
NoDough ·
gus3 wrote:Actually, Schroedinger's Equation says your waveform is already scattered.

And Murphy's Law says there's nothing you can do about it.


And which do we most often see applied?

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