Charlton Heston introduced Scott Smith who demonstrated a home lifting device called Lift@home at DemoCamp 2019 in Toronto. Smith discussed how science fiction works like Planet of the Apes, I Am Legend, and Make Room! Make Room! anticipated future technologies. He quoted sources saying science fiction shapes technological development and that design fiction probes ideas for the future similarly to how science fiction does through stories. Smith concluded by quoting I Am Legend, saying his device enters "the unassailable fortress of forever."