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"We'd have most of what we predicted of the conquest of space, if we hadn't ignored parasite control."
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![]() This Is a very early, if not the earliest, reference to machine translation of language, in science fiction.
Compare to the the language translation machine from The Coming Race (1889) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, theTranslator Discs from Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven, the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams and Language Rectifier from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback.
See also the artificially produced speech, mechanically produced speech, from Hotel Cosmos (1938) by Raymond Z. Gallun. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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