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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Radar Mesentery | ||
| A thick covering that supports a network of sensors. |
This term refers to the "skin" of a wrestling robot named "Rolem" and is an intriguing way for a machine to sense its opponents.
| It doesn't really "see" its opponent with those eye-things it has; it's all sheathed about with piezo-electric radar mesentery, and it "watches " from all its surfaces. |
| Technovelgy from This Immortal,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace Science Fiction in 1965 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Ixian sight mask from Frank Herbert's 1976 novel Children of Dune.
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| Optimus Robot Can Charge Itself |
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