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Here's another interaction with the robot porter:
“Do you want anything?” he asked in soft, courteous tones.
“No,” said Burgess. “I couldn’t sleep, and came to find something to read.” He had decided to say nothing for the present. Then he was assailed by a foolish little feeling : the porter could understand his “no” but nothing of the rest of the explanation. It was difficult to keep in mind that these things were only machines ; one felt like treating them as conscious human beings.
The passengers retired sleepily to their respective rooms, and the porter returned to his niche; his faint croaking stopped and the night was quiet again.
Compare to the GPP feature (Genuine People Personalities) in Douglas Adams' 1979 book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Also, see the autoporter from The Shockwave Rider (1975) by John Brunner. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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