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"There's no point in making a mistake unless you understand the mistake so that you don’t make it again."
- Alfred Bester
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| Fishcam | ||
| Seeing through the eyes of a robotic fish. |
| She set the fish down. "Now I’m turning it on."
The Mitsubishi turbot wriggled, as if alive. With one fluid motion, it surged forward, plunged, and was gone. Lizzie switched over to the fishcam. Black liquid flashed past the turbot’s infrared eyes... |
| Technovelgy from Slow Life,
by Michael Swanwick. Published by Analog in 2002 Additional resources -
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