Have you ever had a dream that is so real thhat it's comparable to the waking world itself? Were you in control of that dream? Were you in control of yourself in that dream at all?

These "lucid" dreams are being studied as part of how our brain works. It has great potential to make use of the presently untapped 1/3 of our lives. But are there dangers such as those in Bad Connection?

This story relates to the dilemma our society faces with every new technology. With gene editing, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, science's unending possibilities also carry also carries cautionary tales.

This is one of them...

Comment Below is probably the shortest story featured on IFSA thus far. But the story itself is anything but inadequate. It delves into a question that have puzzled computer scientists since the 1950s: how human can a computer be?

In Comment Below, the answer is 'yes', in more ways than one.

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Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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With artificial intelligence being the next bog thing in tech circles, industrialist are looking at its applications in the next wave of the past successive industrial revolutions - tentatively called "IR 4.0". But what about its application onto the other side of the human condition - aesthetics and beauty - may they be in the form of words, sounds or sights?

Can robot be truly creative? To create, and even appreciate, beauty? Because that would truly be revolutionary!