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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Robots Build Robots | ||
| Using robot labor exclusively to build more robots. |
An early explicit statement of this idea.
| "Pardon me, Struthers," he broke in suddenly... "haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?"
"Eh? Oh, yes! Yes, indeed!" He smiled at Mrs. Weston. "A vicious circle in a way - robots creating more robots. However we are not intending to make a general practice of it. We turn out a very few robots using robot labor exclusively, merely as a sort of scientific curiousity. "You see," he tapped his pince-nez into one palm argumentatively, "the robot factories of the country are cooperating with the government -" "Yes, yes, Struthers, I once heard you make a speech on "Robots and the Future of the Human Being." |
| Technovelgy from Robbie (Strange Playfellow),
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Super Science Stories in 1940 Additional resources -
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