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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
- Bart Kosko
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| Police Detection Robot | ||
| An automated evidence-gathering robot. |
How best to determine the guilty party in a murder? Careful examination of the murder scene is essential.
| Ackers went on into the living room to watch the detectors gather up evidence. There was a vast nearsightedness to the wedge grinding ponderously across the carpet. It was scrutinizing at a microscopic level, and its field was sharply curtailed. As fast as material was obtained, it was relayed to the Interior offices, to the aggregate file banks where the civil population was represented by a series of punch cards, cross-indexed infinitely. |
| Technovelgy from The Unreconstructed M,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Science Fiction Stories in 1957 Additional resources -
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Compare with the dustmice from Greg Bear's 1990 novel Queen of Angels .
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