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"This is a predictive tool I've used: There are goals we've sought for ten thousand years, and we'll go on seeking them. Instant transport and travel, immortality (or at least longevity and miracle cures.), instant learning …"
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The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner can now perform this feat, just fifty short years later.
Also, compare to the charging arm robot from Masters of Chance (1941) by William Morrison and to the Autonomously Recharging UAV from Roger Zelazny's 1980 novel Changeling. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.'
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