Tablets' alternative

Usage examples of capsules.

And while I am dreaming, the little needles come and drink my blood, and then the laboratories analyze the proteins — the peptides, to be precise — and synthesize them, just as the brain does, and put them into little capsules, and the poppets pop it, you see?

As a young man he had injected a series of information capsules to satisfy his insatiable curiosity about the way things worked.

What the capsules offer is bliss, tailored to my needs, not adjusted to them.

It isn’t just capsules I want, not just temporary relief, but a complete hookup, total immersion.

The four basic ingredients of their civilization, she said, were power, automation, computers, and capsules representing energy, work, control, and knowledge — a complete system, with humanity in the middle as the beneficiary.

And the capsules contained not only information, so that people could learn what the world was like and what it had been like and what other men and women had thought about it and how to do things, but experiences — memories so complete that they could be lived and relived with only an injection from a capsule programmed from a computer.

They enjoyed a carefree period of growing up in a crèche, socializing with other children of their age, tended by a few loving volunteers and a great many efficient machines, learning the few things necessary for their life in the urban centers, taught by capsules or computers: the resources available to them and how to order them.

The information and abilities that a child takes years to learn, even with the aid of capsules, came back to him in weeks, without the aid of capsules, for he knew that they would bring back other memories with them.

First came artistry, then decadence, and finally perversion — until popping capsules became a way of life and then a culture, while earlier uses of chemical memory remained embedded in society like scarred boulders dropped from retreating glaciers.

They went that way, popping a variety of capsules when they were young but as they got older returning more and more often to one particular dream until that was all they popped, until, in some cases, they stayed under continually, dreaming their lives away.

There was no crew toroid, instead three silvery mechanical capsules were fixed equidistantly around the upper hull.

A two-metre-diameter airlock tube had concertinaed out from the bay wall, just below the control centre, giving the maintenance team access to the life-support capsules buried at the core of the ship.

Larry Kouritz led his squad into the Lady Macbeth’s life-support capsules, executing the penetration and securement procedures with textbook precision.

The crew scurried through the life-support capsules, securing loose fittings and general rubbish.

But none of the life-support capsules were breached, and our environmental-maintenance equipment is fully functional.