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"[Science fiction is] anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out."
- Gregory Benford
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| Desk Secretary | ||
| A desk with a computerized secretary built into it. |
| I opened the door of my office. On the door, neat Anglic script said:
Assistant OUT That last word modified itself to read IN as the secretary built into my desk recognized me. I sat down and asked what I had on hand from yesterday. My own voice came back to me from the tapes... |
| Technovelgy from The Long Result,
by John Brunner. Published by Ballantine Books in 1963 Additional resources -
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Compare to the autobutle from The Godmakers (1972) by Frank Herbert.
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'A broken circle with arrows pointing to a right-hand flow appeared in the chalf.'
'The object seemed melted together like wax — nothing was distinguishable.'
'Midges have many capabilities. To the untrained eye, they look like sparrows.'
'I made disks of my own voice to the number of five hundred very carefully chosen words.'
'His sensors out and working, and the whirring of the tape that sucked up sight and sound and shape and smell and form...'
'It sounds to me as though you had invented a kind of metal earthworm.'
