There are so many sci-fi inventions that would change regular folks’ lives if they had access to them. To list a few: Men In Black‘s memory eraser stick, the lightsabers from Star Wars, and perhaps most personally to me, Cher Horowitz’s digitized closet from Clueless. If I could get my hands on any one of those, I’d never be sad again. But perhaps they would unleash havoc upon the world like none of us have seen before. Perhaps they would rip the very fabric of society. If I had Cher’s closet, my outfits would be too powerful. My swag would be too limitless. They would kill me. 

On the other hand, it would be cool to have a translation collar to hear what our pets are saying like they do in Up. I would risk the undoing of society to hear what my cat thinks about. Or maybe I’ll just look at these sci-fi memes and that will satisfy me.