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"As the rate of technological development speeds up, the gap between science fiction and what we’re living now is getting narrower all the time."
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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'the real border was defended by ...a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats...'
FlexRAM Liquid Metal RAM And One Particular SF Movie Robot
'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.'
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