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" I think that computers today allow us one last opportunity to provide something like a level playingfield in America."
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The Martians fought with weapons as yet unimagined by the people of Earth; an invisible sword of fire that destroyed all it touched.
Compare to the death-ray from The World Masters (1903) by George Griffiths, the
short-wave surgical knife from Boomerang (1953) by Eric Frank Russell, the
ray gun from The Black Star Passes (1930) by John W. Campbell, the
pencil heat ray from Brigands of the Moon (1930) by Ray Cummings, the Banning gun from Voyage 13 (1938) by Ray Cummings and the
flesh gun from The Computer Connection (1974) by Alfred Bester.
The invention of the laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) probably dates to 1958, when Schawlow and Townes (Bell researcher and consultant, respectively) published a paper called Infrared and Optical Masers.
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