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- Bart Kosko
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| Machine City | ||
| A city that is a self-maintaining whole entity. |
This is a very early reference to the idea of a city that is really one large, complex machine. It is self-maintaining; it is designed to exist forever, without any intervention by man.
| The city was divided into two sections, a section of many strata where machines functioned smoothly, save for a deep humming beat that echoed through the whole city like a vast unending song of power.
Seven or even seventy million years don't mean much to old Mother Earth. She may even succeed in wearing down those marvelous machine cities... When the builders made those cities, they forgot one thing. They didn't realize that things shouldn't go on forever. |
| From Twilight,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1934 Additional resources -
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