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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
- Charles Stross
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| Water Brain Fountain | ||
| A drinking fountain that locates your mouth, rather than you having to lean down to the spout. |
There was a time a couple of decades ago when I said this is a ridiculous idea.
| Lieutenant West stopped at a drinking fountain and allowed the robot water-brain to find his mouth with a jet of ice-cold spray. |
| Technovelgy from War Veteran,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1955 Additional resources -
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Now, of course, I realize that once technologists and engineers and entrepreneurs have something that works, the impetus to monetize it as an invention is irresistible.
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