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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Robot Detector | ||
| A device that can sense robotics. |
As far as I know, the first use of "robot detector".
| Somewhere in the ship a robot detector circuit closed, activating a bell.
Are they that close? The range of the robot instrument was perhaps five kilometers. Baker flipped a switch and watched the angry image of a space cruiser flash on a video screen. |
| Technovelgy from Assignment in the Unknown,
by Frank Quattrocchi. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1951 Additional resources -
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