Futuristic Technology Writing Prompts

In an age where gaming is widespread, militaries all over the world swiftly (and successfully) adapt by drafting gamers and assigning them into units and roles based on mandatory tracking of their most played genre and overall gametime. You just got your draft letter.

As we gazed across the fields, he remarked: "I remember when this was all skyscrapers..."

You are badly injured and the only way to keep you alive is to inject experimental new nanobots into your body. While healing, you begin to sense an intelligence emerging from the nanobots, and then, one day, the intelligence speaks to you "Hello, what am I?"

Your workers always ask “Why do you put a self destruct button on your inventions?” Tired of their questioning, you decide to explain why it’s perfectly rational.

In the future, medical science has advanced to the point where people are functionally immortal. However, the Grim Reaper likes to visit people on the day they would have died of natural causes for a talk.

The Galactic Council and their enemy’s have always used energy based weapons. The sudden scrabble to develop defences against physical weapons REALLY should have started when the humans began to have interest in Mass Drivers capable of firing over 1,000 tons at FTL speeds.

At the age of 18 you take a mandatory test. Talking about the test is prohibited. If you score a 95% or above you're taken away. You just scored the highest in the world.

After your interrogators used a truth serum to get you to talk, you discover you can answer questions you never knew you had the answers to. (No one responded to it originally 5y’s ago)

In a world where the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives, there is a black market where people can buy glimpses of their memories before the government wiped them. As an underground memory dealer, you must decide how far you are willing to go to help people reclaim their past

When type 4 civilization patched a black hole that was dangerously next to a human colony, usually other species of the intergalactic community ran away, but humanity was the first to excitingly contact this civilization.

"Before I ask why you were doing 675 million in a 40, I'd first like to ask how in the world that's even possible."

There is a 50/50 chance that leaving the Arch Mage and Head Scientist alone in a room together will result in either a marriage proposal or a doomsday device. More likely both.

Brain chips have arrived, making the whole world an augmented reality! It is really *THOUGHT REDACTED*. That's weird, I forgot what I was about to say.

Eel-punk. Eels generate 98% of the power required by the world. Megacorps manage breeding programs and sell sterile eels. Today, Joe the Fisher caught a fish that could change everything.

"It doesn't matter how much of a 'neuroscientific breakthrough' it is. Using arbitrary code execution to re-code a patient's brain into Pong is definitely malpractice!"

You and several other scientists agree to be frozen in hopes you’ll have more time to find a cure for a plague that has wrecked havoc on the world. It’s finally your turn to wake up. The others’ notes say you’ve only been asleep for 60 years, but the dust and ruin around you says otherwise

You've just been awoken from cryogenic sleep so that scientists and doctors can finally cure your fatal condition. Then you learn it's been 57000 years since you were put in cryogenic sleep.

In a country were an unbeatable truth serum with a verified 0% false positive rate is routinely used on all political candidates, the revelation that one candidate is completely clean of any misdeeds is considered terrifying by everyone (voters included) instead of reassuring.

Over the years of extensive cybernetic augmentation you installed various artificial alternatives to your organs and even added some implants to your brain. You've just been informed that your organic components have all been dead since last week.

When your university announces they’ll be burying a time capsule for a century, you decide to include a USB with an extremely detailed, high resolution copy of your brain, for fun. The last thing you remember is going into the MRI machine before you wake up & are told a century has passed.

Instead of a random teenager, the hero summoned to a fantasy world was an engineer working at Lockheed Martin.

"You did it! It works!" They cheered. Meanwhile, you're terrified, you fudged the numbers. It shouldn't have worked.

The contract had made it sound like such easy money. Get locked in the portal-belt for a month or so, take a random dick or two a day, enjoy the occasional generous tongue, but ultimately get paid lazing around the house all day. You didn't expect to be one of the most popular 'Toys' on the app

A scientist whose inventions are too good, they become dangerous. A paper towel that is so absorbent it can drain a lake with one roll, an insecticide that makes the species extinct, or a solar powered device that absorbs all light. He is now placed on house arrest to not invent anything.

Digital "familiars" are all the rage in the near future. They can take any form, chat with you, manifest as lifelike holograms, and are capable of travelling between devices instantly. How you GET a "familiar" is never explained by those who have them.

You've awoken after a light year travel to a new planet, only to be greeted by other humans because they invented a faster spaceship after you left.

"Did you just fucking sucessfully counterspell a nuclear bomb!?"

Magic and technology don't mix, or so they say. You worked out how they can be safely combined and it wasn't even that difficult, yet when you presented it to the archmages they confiscated your prototype and ordered you to destroy all documentation and proof of its existence.

"This gun right here is able to fire a bullet at the speed of 299,792,458 meters per second which is 1% the speed of light. Now, i gotta warn you of the flash that comes after the bullet hits the target."

"You think science and magic are two separate systems? Hardly. They are merely ways of looking at the universe and bending it to your will. That is why I revere these scientists as I would the greatest mages." said the magical professor.