Cli-Fi

Cli-Fi is a subgenre of science fiction (much like dystopian, utopian, cyberpunk, and space odyssey) in literature and film. While science fiction was once primarily "about science," it has since evolved into a far-reaching field that encompasses a variety of these subgenres. Cli-Fi is the assimilation of climate change inspired science fiction coined by author Yolonda Sweitzer in her upcoming young adult novel WHEN THE FIRST LEAVES WILT.

While Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life, Cli-Fi, by definition, deals specifically with a future set against the backdrop of an extreme environment due to climate shift and adverse weather patterns due to human interference in earth’s natural balance. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." Cli-Fi is no different in that sense, dealing most often with the man vs. nature themes of literature and maintaining a strong environmental subject.

This book is part of a growing Cli-Fi phenomenon.

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Fi-yah!

It's the state of being when you do something very very well. Particularly at a sport, like in Soccer when you score a goal and you do a dance and scream, "I'm on FI-YAH!"

Come on dude, don't do the Fi-Yah! dance. You didn't even score a bloody goal...

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wi-fi

wireless - free - internet

Hey Joe, remember when you logged countless hours as a post-grad in computer science helping to create some foundation for the internet? Well your efforts shouldn't be in vain, we're now hooked up with interface wirelessly and calling it Wi-Fi.

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Ni-Fi

A subgenre of Science Fiction (Sci-Fi) consisting largely of "near-future" science fiction films made in the 1990s. Shares significant overlap with cyberpunk but is somewhat more broad and mainstream. The films are the product of the recognition of the '90s populace that the digital future was coming, but the means of portraying that future onscreen were largely analog. CRT monitors everywhere, use of tapes, ubiquitous bright colors, and a conspicuous lack of the amount of film filtering and CGI that permeates 2000's sci fi films.

The Lawmower Man 2's future full of CRT monitors and crappy bluescreen work gave it a real Ni-Fi mood.

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Li-fi

Li-fi is a technique that uses LED light to transmit data. use of RGB Leds drastically increases the bandwidth which is already quite large.,..

It also solves the problem of nearby wi-fi zones interfering and limiting bandwidth and you can protect your li-fi network by simply closing the curtains :p

person a) what your wi-fi routers name?
person b) i use li-fi not wi-fi *point at the led sealing lamp*

fi yang

for real, for shiz
1980's cronulla slang
used by many youngsters along the southern beachs of the sutherland shire

mace: man i just got a killer break
rob: oh fi yang thats awsome dude.

nigh-fi

pronunciation "NYE-fi". Science fiction that focuses on dark consequences of the near-term future. Etymology: "the end is nigh" + "sci-fi"

Black Mirror is a great example of contemporary nigh-fi drama.