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"For the sciences, the way to change science's perception of things is to wait until all the old farts have died off."
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Compare to the tracer-birds from an unusual story by Roger Zelazny. As far as I know, the earliest reference to a little flying UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is the scarab robot from a 1936 story by Raymond Z. Gallun.
Also, compare it to the robot bird from Invader on My Back, by Philip E. High, published by Ace Books in 1968.
The copseyes from a story by Larry Niven use a different take on this idea. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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