ORBITAL VECTOR
The Speculative Technology Database
This site is meant to be an online encyclopedia for the technology of the future.
Technology that may exist ten years or ten centuries from now, as imagined by scientists, engineers, authors, and artists alike.
Orbital Vector is a work in progress dedicated to collecting and cataloging speculative technology ideas, and to function as a bridge between real science and science fiction for the non-scientist. On the hub pages and articles, technology is arranged from lowest tech to highest, so that the further down the page you scroll, the deeper into the future you go.
Using This Site
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SPACE
MEGASTRUCTURES
AQUATIC
| AQUATIC
| Exploring and exploiting watery environments.
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MEDICAL
MILITARY
POWER
| POWER
| Energy production, transfer, and storage.
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RECENT ADDITIONS
Tech Levels of Science Fiction Groups And Cultures (Essays, revised 5/29/08)
Site News (updated 3/08/08)
Nuclear Force Manipulators (Defenses & Countermeasures, added 2/24/08)
Plasma Shields (Defenses & Countermeasures, added 2/07/08)
Sandcasters (Defenses & Countermeasures, added 1/30/08)
Electrostatic Defense Field (Defenses & Countermeasures, added 1/20/08)
Electromagnetic Defense Field (Defenses & Countermeasures, added 1/17/08)
Anti-Mine Dart Bomb (Tactical Weapons, added 1/08/08)
Lightsabers (Misc. Weapons, added 1/07/08)
Space-Based Solar Thermal Power (Power, added 1/03/08)
Particle Beam Weapons (Firearms/Tactical Weapons/SpaceWeapons, added 12/26/07)
Further Notes On Tech Levels (Essays, added 12/05/07)
Diverted Asteroid Satellite (Solar System/Asteroids And Comets, added 11/28/07)
Hunters In The Great Dark (Essays, added 11/18/07)
Space-Based Sunshades (Space Structures, added 11/18/07)
Flying Wind Turbines (Power, added 11/10/07)
Sea Orbiter (Aquatic, added 11/07/07)