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"My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Robot Clerk | ||
| An autonomous clerical unit - a robot that could wait on you in a store. |
| The robot clerk in the waiting-room checked her number, then let her into the little room where the towering Counselor took up all of one wall. She shut the inward-locking door, peered through the one-way glass to watch the robot go back to its desk, and lay down on the long couch.
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| Technovelgy from Throwback,
by Miriam Allen deFord. Published by Startling Stories in 1952 Additional resources -
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Isaac Asimov also uses the idea of a robot clerk in his 1954 story Caves of Steel:
The manager of the store was cooling down, adjusting his twisted jacket, smoothing his hair, muttering angry threats at the vanishing crowd. One of the robot clerks advanced on the cowering woman with the hat and removed a shoe deftly. The robot’s eye regarded it dispassionately for half a moment, then called out. “Size 6-C, last 14-X Alcove D-second shelf.” A second clerk was already on the way to the indicated section.
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