My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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