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"Retire? Yeah, I want to die with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
- Alfred Bester
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| Electrical Grandmother (Robot Grandma) | ||
| A robotic companion. |
| "...for you who have worried over inattentive sitters, nurse who cannot be trusted with marked liquor bottles, and well-meaning Uncles and Aunts... we have perfected the first humanoid-genre mini-circuited, rechargeable AC-DC Mark V Electrical Grandmother.
"...the Fantoccini Electrical Grandmother is built with loving precision to give the incredible precision of love to your children... She is computerized to tutor in twelve languages simultaneously..." |
| From I Sing The Body Electric!,
by Ray Bradbury. Published by Knopf in 1969 Additional resources -
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The Electrical Grandmother had some other nifty features; for example, she could refill your glass with "clear cold mineral spring water from the tappet in her left forefinger."
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