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"Writing about the future, I have a vested interest in there being a future for me to write about."
- John Brunner

Automated Apartment Maintenance  
  Automated devices that would oversee the maintenance of a rented apartment.  

Picking up the vidphone, he dialed 214, the extension for the maintenance circuit of the building. "Listen," he said, when the homeostatic entity answered. "I'm now in a position to divert some of my funds in the direction of settling my bill vis-a-vis your clean-up robots. I'd like them up here right now to go over my apt. I'll pay the full and entire bill when they're finished."

"Sir, you'll pay your full and entire bill before they start."

Technovelgy from Ubik, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Doubleday in 1969
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