User:Chodorkovskiy/Articles of the Future
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This page is not a real Wikipedia article.
I often come across concepts that are part of our day-to-day life, but are not yet documented and/or researched well enough to be introduced into Wikipedia. So one day I got together and decided to speculate a bit.
This page is not a draft. It is merely a collection of ideas for future articles. I think it belongs.
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[edit] Cyberudition
Cyberudition is the concept of historic and /or technical omniscience achieved by tapping into online information sources shortly before certain data is needed, sometimes in the middle of a debate. Cyberudition was first made possible when the Google search engine and the Wikipedia encyclopedia allowed anyone with a personal computer and an active connection to the internet access to the bulk of humanity's knowledge with speed and ease never before imagined. The word "cyberudition" consists of the popular uses for "erudition" and "cyber", meaning "wisdom through the computer". It is not known who came up with the word in the first place, but it saw global use sometime in the beginning of the 21st century.
[edit] Laptop Strategists
Laptop Strategists is a term used to describe gamers who believe their vast experience with war-oriented computer games would allow them to perform as well as, if not better than real military commanders or soldiers in a combat situation. The phrase is a spin on "armchair strategist", where "armchair" is replaced with laptop. The term laptop strategist gained a mocking flavor after the utter failure of the 2019 Project: Ender undertaken by the Pentagon. As part of the project, a group of war-gamers who ranked high in the World Cyber Games tournament was invited into several military command centers of the United States Army to participate in major training exercises. Despite their prowess in virtual combat and a crash course in military command, none of the new "recruits" showed any military talent whatsoever.
[edit] Faunism
Faunism is the practice of not consuming food that originated from plants. This may or may not include fruits. Faunists see flora as a victim of herbivores and, unlike vegetarians, refuse to eat anything that was "stolen" from the plants, as they see it. Faunists see herbivores as a rampaging menace, carnivores as noble champions, "unjustly persecuted" through human history both in folklore and real life, and regard omnivores with great scorn. Thus, despite their name (which was meant to counter-balance vegetarianism), most faunists limit their diet to herbivore products.
[edit] Plutonians
Plutonians are a group of people who oppose the redefinition of classic scientific terms. The name plutonians originated from the 2006 redefinition of planet, the result of which was that Pluto no longer qualified for the term planet and the Solar System was left with only eight planets instead of the traditional nine. Plutonians refuse to acknowledge redefinitions such as the above mentioned one and, most notably, consider Pluto a planet as far as they are concerned. To futher emphasize their loyalty to classical science, as of 2032, plutonians have begun raising donations to colonize Pluto.
[edit] Three-vision
Three-vision, or 3V (pronounced three-vee) a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance, similar to television, but one which uses holographic technology to create tree-dimensional images. John Brunner first mentioned the concept of three-vision in his science-fiction novel, The Shockwave Rider, published in 1975. Since then and until three-vision became reality, popular culture often made references to holographic television as an integral part of futuristic society. Although the first working three-vision device - the Prometheus - did not appear until 2030, attempts at creating the illusion of three-dimensional imagery on screen go as far back as 1922, in the form of 3-D film.
