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Poldek Ability to sense life.
(From The Saga of Pelican West [1937] by Eric Frank Russell) |
Automatic Factory Manufacturing facility that functions entirely autonomously.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Magnetic Anchor A means of affixing an anchor point on a spacecraft hull.
(From Dead Star Station [1933] by Jack Williamson) |
Automatic Ore Cart An autonomous truck for raw ore processing.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Pizzled (Semantic Garble) Use of nonsensical statements to deliberately confuse an artificial intelligence.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
No Human Programmers The idea that computers are too complicated and too important to be programmed by human beings.
(From Millennium [1983] by John Varley) |
Synthetic Milk Milk made without cows.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Domed Mapviewer Illuminated hemispherical map display.
(From Dorsai! [1960] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
Robot Factory Representative An ambulatory agent of an automatic factory.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Raw Material-Tropic Moves towards desirable raw materials.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Autonomous Truck A truck that drives itself and unloads itself.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Confinement Asteroid A place where asteroid miner's babies stay to experience some needed gravity.
(From At the Bottom of a Hole [1966] by Larry Niven) |
Psycho-History The application of psychology to historical data.
(From Beyond All Weapons [1941] by Eric Frank Russell) |
Antigravity Globe Arena A spherical arena for wrestling.
(From Babel-17 [1966] by Samuel R. Delany) |
Hypnosis Ray Eases the words of dictators into the minds of the credulous.
(From Beyond All Weapons [1941] by Eric Frank Russell) |
Sleep Destroying Field Causes lack of sleep.
(From Biddiver [1941] by Theodore Sturgeon) |
Automatic Refueling Screen Repels objects that are too big, and gathers small ones for fuel.
(From Biddiver [1941] by Theodore Sturgeon) |
Delayed Action Stereoscopic Principle Distinguishing far off space craft by relative speed against the fixed stars.
(From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
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