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"Everything starts as somebody's daydream. And, when you're daydreaming, it is science fiction. It's when you start work out how you put it together, true science fiction becomes real science."
- Larry Niven
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| High Tech Trash Can | ||
| The future of waste management. |
It's friendly, it comes when you call, it's - a trash can? If you are really determined to clean up, this is what you need.
| She looked up the beach for the local trash can. She spotted it loitering near a pair of fisherman, who stood in hip boots in the gentle surf. She called out. "Trash can!" The can pivoted on broad rubber treads and rolled toward her voice. It snuffled across the beach, mapping its way with bursts of infrasound…. The can intoned. "Galveston appreciates good citizenship. ?Would you like to register for a valuable cash prize?" |
| Technovelgy from Islands in the Net,
by Bruce Sterling. Published by William Morrow in 1988 Additional resources -
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Naturally, it is solar-powered.
Compare to the robot trash collectors from The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison.
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"The robot solemnly hit a ball against the wall, picked it up and teed it, hit it again, over and again...'
'There was a wall ahead... It was riddled with holes that were the mouths of tunnels.'
'...support the interior human structure against Jupiter’s pull.'
'Anything larger than a BB shot it picked up and placed in a tray...'
'The German chemists have discovered how to supply the needed elements in compact, undiluted form...'
'Compounds devised by the biochemists for the rapid building of bone...'
'The car faltered as the external command came to brake...'
'It is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized...'
