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Related to material in Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Remarkable work of social and political satire written in the eighteenth century. It is also a work that is replete with references to fantastic inventions and machines that did not exist in Swift's time.

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Machine-Generated Fiction In Fiction
   'Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences...'- Jonathan Swift, 1726

Tactical Biorefinery Turns Garbage Into Energy
   Fascinating invention by Purdue researchers helps an army camp as well as march on its stomach.

All Your Prior Art Are Belong To Us
   '...how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts...' - Jonathan Swift, 1726.

Jonathan Swift in 1726 Predicted AI-Generated Crap Overwhelming Amazon In 2023
   '...the most ignorant person... might write books... without the least assistance from genius or study.' - Jonathan Swift, 1726.

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