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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
- Bart Kosko
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| Automatic Commercial Deletion | ||
| Device automatically detects commercials and turns off the set for the duration. |
| The too-handsome announcer with his too-suave voice slipped deftly into focus, saying dulcetly, "This is WZQZ, bringing you Rod Shipkey with the compliments of Tootsie-Tonic, that gentle-" The screen went dead.
Strike looked across at Jerry in surprise. I bought one of those gadgets yesterday that automatically turns off the radio when the commercials begin," she explained. |
| Technovelgy from Satellite Five,
by Arthur K. Barnes. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1938 Additional resources -
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Heinlein alludes to this capability in his description of a newsbox in his 1941 story Methuselah's Children.
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