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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
- Bart Kosko
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| Robot Taxi | ||
| A taxicab with a robotic driver. |
| The sedative calmed him down a trifle; he emerged and flagged down a robot taxi.
"Main Directorate building," he told the driver. "And take your time." "All right, sir or madam," the MacMillan robot answered, adding, "Whatever you say." MacMillans weren't capable of fine discriminations. |
| From Solar Lottery,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1955 Additional resources -
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See variations on this idea in Larry Niven's bubble cars from World out of Time (1976) or the tin cabbie from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight. A more recent take can be found in Alan Dean Foster's 2006 novel Sagramanda; see the automated taxi.
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