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"People are choosing to allow television and Electronic Arts to do all their imagining for them."
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![]() This item comes from a short story that is a Cold War classic, and well worth reading.
And for larger items, the 'copper scrap rats' would come and seize the offending matter with their miniature jaws.
Although the iRobot Roomba is perhaps more famous, the world's first automatic vacuum cleaner is the Electrolux Trilobite, presented to the public on the BBC in 1997.
This item comes from the story There Will Come Soft Rains, published in 1950.
![]() ![]() (Wally Woods' cartoon version) Robot mouse fans might also be interested in the Greg Bear's dustmice, tiny robotic detectives from his 1990 novel Queen of Angels. As far as I know, the first example of this kind of technovelgy are the golden shuttles from a 1941 story by Eric Frank Russell (writing under a pseudonym). Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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