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From an old Twilight Zone episode: a pocket watch with which I could "stop" time and the world, and go about my own business. Everyone would freeze in place and shut the heck up, and I could roam around, take what I want, and get some peace & quiet before I feel like turing the world back on again. Unlike the TZ episode, I would keep the watch in a secure, cushioned case so it could not break. But if it did break, like in the show, and the whole world and time just stood still, except for me, I would not lament and cry about it like the guy in the show did. I'd enjoy the solitude.
How funny! I thought about the same thing - I loved that episode and I imagined what it would be like if I had a watch like that.
I know! The holodeck would be awesome! And imagine that medical tricorder that can diagnose any health condition. Then they can put a person on that stasis table and fix anything internally, usually without cutting. I wouldn't mind having Data live with me either: the perfect boyfriend--when I want time alone I could just shut him off. And isn't he programmed with hundreds of methods for giving pleasure?
A scientific phenomena practised greatly by the Spacing Guild, wherein a Holtzman Generator is used to fold space on a quantum level, thus allowing a distance that would have otherwise have been non-traversable in the span of a human life to be traversed instantaneously.
Honestly, everything I think of would probably end up having some terrible unexpected consequence that I'm not thinking of. At least in all the fiction I've read and seen. If I were given two wishes, I'd wish for:
1. Excellent, preferably perfect health. Not immortality, just great health until I die at 90 or so.
2. No need to work/no money concerns. I don't need to be wealthy, I just want all my time to be free time, while living comfortably.
Right off hand I can't think of any fiction that involves those two things without intentionally adding negative side-effects or taking them to extremes, like a person isn't just healthy, but immortal, which of course may not be a good thing. Or a person doesn't have to work but it's because he/she is insanely wealthy and that causes a lot of negatives for the person.
I can think of more than one, so I'll give the first few that come to mind:
1. Ability to be invisible
2. Animals who can talk like people
3. Humans with wings to fly
4. Personal spacecraft (like in Star Wars or the Jetsons)
5. Life on other planets
At this point I would like a full time pass to Warehouse 13. I would not object to a date with Myka as well. Other things include drinking with Starbuck from the new Battlestar, following Andromeda anywhere, and spending some quality time with Xena.
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