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"We're about 20 minutes away from the point where Clarke's law kicks in and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
- Peter Watts
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| Synthetic Rubberoid Skin | ||
| An artful recreation of a human face, indistinguishable from the original. |
Dr. Leopold Moriss wants to live eternally in his robot body, with his face exactly the same.
| If Dr. Leopold Moriss had not
been standing beside me I would
have sworn it was him - or his
corpse. Unconsciously my feet carried me forward and to one side
where I could look down at that
face of carefully molded synthetic
rubber, tinted the exact shade of
the doctor's living flesh, the open
unblinking eyes with irises the same
pale blue. And blue-veined hands that seemed to have died just the
moment before. "Color photography," the doctor was explaining. "The sensitized chemicals impregnated in the rubberoid, and the color image of my own flesh imprinted in it from a projector." |
| Technovelgy from One For The Robot - Two For The Same...,
by Rog Philips. Published by Imagination in 1950 Additional resources -
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Compare to robot skin covering fromRex (1934) by Harl Vincent and radar mesentery from This Immortal (1965) by Roger Zelazny.
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