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![]() This seems like a fairly early reference to the idea of a machine psychologist.
The machines referred to here are of course the city fathers, an early sfnal description of artificial intelligence.
The machines also diagnose specific problems:
Compare this device with
the robot psyche tester from Colony (1953) by Philip K. Dick,
Sigrid von Shrink from Gateway (1970) by Frederik Pohl,
the mechanotherapist from Bad Medicine (a 1956 Robert Sheckley story),
Dr. Smile, from Dick's 1964 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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