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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Robot Language | ||
| Specialized talk that machines developed for their own use. |
You just know that robots are going to start talking with each other - and cut us out of the conversation.
| Lined up in rows outside the Brain building was scads and scads of machines — robot machines it’d gone and built on the sly. Something like delivering machines, they was, only considerable more mean-lookin’ and ornery. And there was the Brain, a-clankin’ and a-yappin' away, talking to ’em, if you can believe it, talking to them there robots in some sort of language it had invented.
 (Robot Langugae from "Frankenstein - Unlimited" by H.A. Highstone) |
| Technovelgy from Frankenstein - Unlimited,
by H.A. Highstone. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1936 Additional resources -
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Compare to Robot-Control Wave Band from Rex (1934) by Harl Vincent, mentanical communication from The Mentanicals (1934) by Francis Flagg, the Autonomous Car Intercommunication from Sally (1953) by Isaac Asimov, the Information Sharing (Watchbird Network) from Watchbird (1953) by Robert Sheckley and the TBR (Talk Between Robots) Circuit (1954) from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl.
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