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"What has allowed so many Psychopathic Personalities to rise so high in corporations and government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Artiforg | ||
| An artificial organ kept 'on line' in the body. |
If you are a wealthy businessman like Glen Runciter, you make sure that you've got back-ups. Of everything.
| Probably Runciter's body contained a dozen artiforgs, artificial organs grafted into place in his physiological apparatus as the genuine, original ones, failed. Medical science, he conjectured, supplies the material groundwork, and out of the authority of his mind Runciter supplies the remainder. I wonder how old he is, he wondered. Impossible any more to tell by looks, especially after ninety. |
| Technovelgy from Ubik,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday in 1969 Additional resources -
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See this earlier use - with a slightly different spelling - from Cantata 140; artif-org. Compare to the spinning wheel for veins from R.U.R. (1920) by Karel Capek.
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