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"The world is really so surreal these days that it's necessary for us to blunt it somehow in order to stay sane. The artist functions to short-circuit the buffering mechanism, so that people can occasionally perceive the weirdness of things as they are."
- William Gibson
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| Autonomous Car Intercommunication | ||
| Automatic cars talk to each other about everything. |
| My cars talk to one another. I have no doubt about it anymore. It's as though they've gained confidence; as though they're not bothering to keep it secret anymore. Their engines rattle and knock continuously.
 (Automatobile from 'Sally' by Isaac Asimov) And they don't talk among themselves only. They talk to the cars and buses that come into the Farm on business. How long have they been doing that? |
| Technovelgy from Sally,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Fantastic in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to Compare to mentanical communication from The Mentanicals (1934) by Francis Flagg and the TBR (Talk Between Robots) Circuit from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl.
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