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"I received a nice letter the other day from the Dalai Lama. He had read 'The Nine Billion Names of God'. It is about a computer at a Tibetan monastery."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Machines Colonize Universe | ||
| A brief description of a how automated machines might spread. |
| The machinery was building a miniature replica of the demolished factory.
"Well," O'Neill said thoughtfully, "we're back where we started from. For better or worse . . . I don't know." "I guess they must be all over Earth by now," Morrison said, "landing everywhere and going to work." A thought struck O'Neill. "Maybe some of them are geared to escape velocity. That would be neat — autofac networks throughout the whole universe." Behind him, the nozzle continued to spurt out its torrent of metal seeds. |
| Technovelgy from Autofac,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Galaxy in 1955 Additional resources -
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