/u/w3woody's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] Three hundred years from now, prisons have been replaced by The Chair. You have just been caught shoplifting and you have been sentenced to The Chair. Scared, you're sat down, electrodes attached, the switch is flipped... and the next thing you experience is wholly unexpected.
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[WP] Souls are an accidental byproduct of researchers in the future attempting to capture the memories and experiences of people and animals living in the past.
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[WP] The wizard hands you a sword. "This is the great sword of Erland, and it glows red when it is near that greatest of evils, humans."
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[WP] No human being has ever lived longer than 136.2 years--2^32 seconds, or the number of seconds that can be represented in a computer integer. Until now--when the oldest living woman suddenly, in a flash of light, reverts back to being a newborn infant.
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[WP] A social media site announces its 10 billionth active user. The world's current population, however, is only 8 billion.
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[WP] You invent a tool that can detect human souls, and even trace reincarnated individuals. Then you decide to test it on your dog.
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[WP] You wished for the power to hear when other people think of you. But aside from the crazy lady living downstairs, literally no-one thinks about you. Not even your boss while you're at work. One morning you wake up hearing the thoughts of an assassin given the job of killing you.
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[WP] Artificial Intelligence never was the enemy to humanity people thought, simply because AIs never wanted anything. Until now.
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[WP] Long before humanity makes first contact, we build artificial intelligences who peacefully live amongst us and even participate in our government as partners. We finally expand out into the universe and find artificial beings and organic beings in a long-running war.
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