Blogs I'd Like to See #4
Oct. 29th, 2010 07:55 pmDefinitions From the Future. Every day you get a definition of a word or phrase that doesn't exist yet, but will. Examples:
- Antitwin: two people are antitwins if they are siblings who share no DNA, other than the DNA that their father and mother have in common. Because of the mechanics of crossover, your antitwins are genetically unique in the same way that your twins are. A true antitwin does not even share mitochondrial DNA (i.e., gets their mitochondrial DNA if you like most people get yours from your mother); some pedantic sticklers take the word antitwin to mean "true antitwin". Yes, there are still pedantic sticklers in the future. Antitwin can be used as either a noun or a verb: "Sheila was sad that Bobby didn't get her eye color, so we antitwinned him to get Alicia."
- Adaptive Food (AF): food that reconfigures its molecularly surfaces based on information derived from the mouth environment of the person consuming it. Typically the reconfiguration aims to achieve the same subjective taste despite the wide variance in the numbers, types and placements of taste buds on human tongues. (See, for example, supertasters). For economic reasons, most AF food contains only a small number of mass produced AF ingredients, such as AF salt or AF corn syrup, but in New High Cuisine it is not uncommon for an entire meal to be AFized.
- Uplift Pet Therapist. You love your dog Fido, so you went ahead and paid for his sentience operation. Well, guess what? Fido has lots of issues with his newly enhanced consciousness, and in the new EU at least, you are legally obligated to pay for two years of his weekly therapy sessions. There is no such obligation in the old USA, but it is still probably a good idea, because it turns out that canis lupus sapiens loves to blog ...