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| Robot Row - Robots For Consumers The adoption curve for personal robots will accelerate like the curve for automobiles. (From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
| Robots Learn With Cameras Robots learn new actions by recording them with a camera, doing away with expensive programming. (From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
| Desubstantiation Effect In interstellar space, the ship seems like the only material entity in the universe, leading to loneliness and anxiety. (From Death's End [2010] by Cixin Liu) |
| Testing For Human How can you distinguish the artificial from the real? (From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
| C-Plus Cannon Weapon fire that can skip past the speed of light and back. (From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
| PURDAH A method of ensuring that a given text was created by its putative author, while masking the identity of the author. (From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Edit Stream Internet content curated by a single person or service, then streamed to those who pay for the service. (From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Space-Sphere A bubble of reality. (From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Space Bursts When space itself inflates and eventually blows up. (From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Firebulance An ambulance equipped to sterilize by fire. (From Vector [1958] by Margaret St. Clair) |
| Dark Side Referring to the unlit part of a planet's surface. (From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
| Magnetic Coil Slippers Maintain your footing in zero gravity. (From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Magnetized Cloth Pajamas Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth! (From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Robot AI Driven Mad Placing an artificial intelligence or autonomous robot in a situation in which its brain is unable to make a decision and is destroyed or driven mad. (From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Robopsychologist One who examines the thought processes of robots. (From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Disk-Shaped Landing Pads Used instead of typical landing gear with wheels. (From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
| Precrime A system by which criminal acts are known before they occur. (From The Minority Report [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Landing Legs Projections from the base of a space craft that allow it to land upright in gravity. (From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
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