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" I think that computers today allow us one last opportunity to provide something like a level playingfield in America."
- William Gibson
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| Synthetic Food Dispenser | ||
| A machine that could make whatever food you wanted from basic elements. |
This is a very early use of the idea of a food synthesizer that could whip up whatever you wanted without needing to grow fruits and vegetables or breed animals for meat.
| The restaurant had the food displayed directly, and I made a choice. The food was three hundred thousand years old, I suppose. I didn't know, and the machines that served it to me didn't care, for they made things synthetically, you see, and perfectly. |
| From Twilight,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1934 Additional resources -
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