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"I've got this beautiful panoramic three-dimensional painting of Mars based on Martian photos. It's 30 feet wide. You can pick out every pebble on the Martian landscape. And who'd have dreamed you could do that?"
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Auto-Scan | ||
| Automated control of remote surveillance drones. |
Eyes are hovering, sem-autonomous surveillance drones with cameras to send images (and guns to respond if need be). An entire system of a hundred or more drones could be remotely controlled from a central location under an auto-scan program.
| I sent an eye scurrying off toward Saint Stephen's at full speed, which meant a wait of about twenty minutes until it topped the range. Another, I sent straight up, skywards, which meant perhaps ten minutes for a long shot of the same scene. Then I put the auto-scan in full charge of operations and went downstairs for a cup of coffee. |
| Technovelgy from This Moment of the Storm,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Not Known in 1966 Additional resources -
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