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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06, 2009 @01:40PM

An anonymous reader writes "This is a blog post on Oxford University Press USA, listing nine words used in science and technology which were actually dreamed up by fiction writers. Perhaps Slashdot readers can come up with a few more?"
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