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"...science fiction is sort of like a sociological genome. It's a huge range of possible futures, most of them useless; some vital. You never really know in advance."
- Peter Watts
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| Jurymech | ||
| A robotic entity serving the function of a trial jury. |
| He went on trial at 10:40 A.M.,
with the option of human (fallible)
jury, or robotic (infallible) jury-
mech.
Irrationally, he chose the human jury... ...he also knew that advantage would have been lost, had he chosen a robot jurymech to try the case. The nice things about humans tied in with their irrationality. They were human, they could see the human point of view. A robot would see the robotic point of view. Bergman desperately needed that human factor. |
| Technovelgy from Wanted in Surgery,
by Harlan Ellison. Published by IF Worlds of Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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