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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
- Larry Niven
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| Automated Factories | ||
| Manufacturing facilities that do not require human workers. |
This is an early use of this phrase, the first I know about.
| True, when production outruns consumption, as it always docs in peacetime, there is mass unemployment. True, our gallant servicemen are out of work. True, their fathers and brothers walk the streets past empty munitions plants. But there are always some who have work. Especially the technicians in the automated factories, on the automated farms and sea ranches... they are always well paid, a ready market. |
| Technovelgy from The Peacemongers,
by Poul Anderson. Published by Fantasy Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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Compare to the unattended factory from The Hidden Colony, by Otfrid von Hanstein, published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1935.
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