Professor Lormax claimed that creating a self-ironing shirt is a ____ possibility, although anyone who has met his laundry pile would doubt his optimism. He insisted that, in the ____ future, humans would no longer need to do chores at all. His students found that idea charming, though a little far-____, considering he once spent three weeks trying to reboot a toaster. Still, Lormax argued that a fully automated home ecosystem could in ____ predict our needs before we even think of them. But the university committee reminded him that such a system ____ be achievable only if it didn’t immediately crash when someone sneezed near the sensors. Even the prototype robot vacuum, Model V-13, seemed to ____ extreme difficulties navigating a simple carpet. Lormax’s dream of a Thinking Refrigerator, he admitted, is only ____, especially since the last prototype tried to sue him for emotional damage. “Nevertheless,” he said, “a device that adjusts your diet according to your mood is not ____ implausible.” Privately, though, he confessed: “I’m ____ the next version will at least stop throwing yogurt at me.” His assistant Mira was less convinced and told him, “Sorry, Professor, I don’t ____ any refrigerator ____ ever understand human emotions.” Of course, Lormax still had bigger dreams. “I’d ____ like teleportation to be invented, but the math department says my calculations violate at least four laws of physics and one university parking regulation.” Even he admitted teleportation is a long ____ from becoming practical technology. Time-travel tourism, on the other hand, he suggested, might be ____, even ____, provided tourists sign a waiver accepting that paradoxes are non-refundable. The committee, exhausted, concluded that such a business is quite ____, though they didn’t entirely dismiss the idea. After all, in the world of Professor Lormax, anything that doesn’t explode is a ____.

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