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"...a few centuries of coherent humanist thought, set against a million odd years of evolved killer ape tendency. No-one's going to give you very good odds on humanism, are they?"
- Richard Morgan
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| Autonomous Car Intercommunication | ||
| Automatic cars talk to each other about everything. |
| My cars talk to one another. I have no doubt about it anymore. It's as though they've gained confidence; as though they're not bothering to keep it secret anymore. Their engines rattle and knock continuously. And they don't talk among themselves only. They talk to the cars and buses that come into the Farm on business. How long have they been doing that? |
| Technovelgy from Sally,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Fantastic in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to Compare to mentanical communication from The Mentanicals (1934) by Francis Flagg and the TBR (Talk Between Robots) Circuit from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl.
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