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"I was involved in a cloning project. .. to send me into outer space along with a lot of other people. Not the whole me - just a hair from my head, while I still had some. I would thus pop up in another galaxy in the distant future."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Jurymech | ||
| A robotic entity serving the function of a trial jury. |
| He went on trial at 10:40 A.M.,
with the option of human (fallible)
jury, or robotic (infallible) jury-
mech.
Irrationally, he chose the human jury... ...he also knew that advantage would have been lost, had he chosen a robot jurymech to try the case. The nice things about humans tied in with their irrationality. They were human, they could see the human point of view. A robot would see the robotic point of view. Bergman desperately needed that human factor. |
| Technovelgy from Wanted in Surgery,
by Harlan Ellison. Published by IF Worlds of Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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