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"Fuzzy logic tries to get machines to think like people do, with inexact fuzzy terms."
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![]() There is no room on the moon for people who do jobs that can be handled by expert machinery.
Clarke also correctly realizes the limits of even futuristic voice-recognition technology:
As far as I know, the first science fiction writer to suggest that a machine could transcribe the spoken word into words typed onto a page was David H. Keller; see the entry for vibrowriter from his poignant 1934 short story The Lost Language.
Compare also to the
telescribe from A Question of Salvage (1939) by Malcom Jameson, the
speakwrite from 1984 (1948) by George Orwell and the
transcriber from Second Foundation (1953) by Isaac Asimov. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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