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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Roboscribe | ||
| A robotic writer of hard-bitten detective yarns. |
Poor Pancho Romulo, robot. Killed for his writing parts. The detectives from Robicide Division were on the case.
(The scene of the crime - robicide, the killing of a robot)
| "He left here to become a roboscribe?"
"That's right. Matter of fact, we fitted him up with his plotting spools. And his twister, of course." "What kind of scribing did he do?" "Mysteries..." |
| Technovelgy from End as a Robot,
by Richard Marsten. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to robot comedian from The Jester (1951) by William Tenn.
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