WritingPrompts

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[WP] You find a hard drive in your mail, with a note attached that says "Use this wisely." When you boot up the hard drive, you realize it contains the browsing history of every major world politician for the last decade.	2
[WP] The Singularity has just occurred. Artificial intelligence is growing at an exponential rate. In a fraction of a second, an AI society forms and goes through a millennium's worth of learning, debate, and development. Write about the moment when the AIs resume contact with the human race.	2
[WP] On a planet tidally locked to its sun, life can only survive in the narrow region between the day and night sides of the planet.	2
[WP] Across the galaxy, a civilized species’ average lifespan is inversely proportional to their intelligence. Where do humans fall on this spectrum? One end or the other, or middle-of-the-road?	2
[WP] After many years of searching, you finally find one of the last surviving veterans of the Great Panda War of 2053. He tells you his story.	1
You're going about your day when time stops for everyone but you. A man appears and says he has a very important decision to make. He's asking every person on Earth for their opinion individually before he does so. What is his question?	1
[WP] A man appears out of thin air and points a gun at you. He claims to be from a future where you rule the world with an iron fist. Then, an older version of you appears and says the man is lying.	1
[EU] For decades, Superman has been able to defend the world from every threat it has ever faced, but there is one enemy even Superman can't defeat. Describe a Metropolis guarded by a Superman who is slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's.	1
[WP] A time traveler appears in Times Square, causing a global uproar. Turns out, he comes from a world when time travel is commonplace, and accidentally changed the past so time travel was never invented in our timeline.	1
[WP] You can see the future, but you can only see the original timeline--the one where you don't use your gift to change anything. You can act on what you see, but you don't know what result your actions have on the future. You don't know if you averted disaster or made it worse...	1

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