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"I'm a fairly visual thinker. In doing science, I think in terms of pictures of things happening, and then do the mathematics."
- Gregory Benford
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| Robot-Referee | ||
| An autonomous robot judge at athletic events. |
As far as I know, the first use of this phrase.
| The robot-referee came into the ring, and the crowd immediately hushed. A dime-sized microphone on an almost invisible wire dropped down from the batteries of overhead lights (this was more in the line of tradition than need, since the robot-referee had a built-in mike of his own), and the referee held up his hands for complete silence. The crowd shushed itself to a murmur, and the referee went through his introductory piece. After each fighter had received the crowd’s roar of approbation, the referee signalled for them to come to the center. |
| Technovelgy from Jingle in the Jungle,
by Aldo Giunta. Published by IF in 1957 Additional resources -
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