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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
- William Gibson
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| Robotic Butterfly | ||
| A tiny, electromechanical flying robot. |
I can't think of another reference to a "robot butterfly".
| The robot monarch butterfly drops down and hovers above Susan Calvin. She stands in a long corridor of silvery metal. We cannot see either end of the tunnel. It stretches away in both directions ... a road from nowhere to nowhere. Susan wears a long caftan, like a nightshirt. We will have the feeling she is unable to sleep and is walking to settle her thoughts. The robot butterfly hovers and she looks up at it. Then from the butterfly we HEAR the hollow, faintly tinny VOICES of Bratenahl and Bernice recorded from the preceding scene:
BERNICE’S VOICE FROM BUTTERFLY (FILTER) |
| Technovelgy from I, Robot: The Movie,
by Harlan Ellison. Published by Asimov's Science Fiction in 1987 Additional resources -
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A bit more:
Compare to the artificial butterfly from Changeling (1980) by Roger Zelazny.
The light fills the FRAME and we HEAR two things: the ECHO VOICE of CALVIN saying "Goodbye” over and over, growing ever fainter until it is overcome by the SOUND of the WHIRRING of the robot butterfly as it swoops down into the FRAME and the CAMERA FOLLOWS IT UP into the blazing light of the silver metal corridor...
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