Examples of media companies continuing to develop intellectual property (IP) include Disney producing more Star Wars media, Lionsgate producing The Hunger Games movies, and Nintendo continuing to develop games in the Legend of Zelda series.

The "Merit Machine" is a technological implant installed in one’s brain that, when activated, allows one to accurately gauge the overall effort someone else has put into an action they have taken.

Sex-positive feminism emphasises the importance of sex and sexual choice to women’s liberation. It emerged as a reaction against second wave feminists’ criticisms of pornography, sex work, and much heterosexual sex as inherently patriarchal.

A time dilation chamber is a chamber in which the experience of the passing of time for individuals inside the chamber is altered. The experience of time passing is controlled outside of the chamber. For example, an individual within the chamber may mentally experience the passing of time to be the duration of 10 years, although time passing in the world outside is only a duration of 10 minutes. The experience is purely mental and does not physically age individuals within the chamber.