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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
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![]() This is an early reference to this kind of device, and is particularly detailed.
Compare to the robot tracking device from Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel Vulcan's Hammer, the scarab robot flying insect from Raymond Z. Gallun's 1936 story The Scarab and the mechanical mice from Eric Frank Russel's chilling 1941 short story The Mechanical Mice. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'... the brain is no longer subjected to the accustomed pull, and it expands slightly in all directions.'
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