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...better than its detractors are saying. Like Novelist Frame, he too seems more concerned with what will be than what has been. Certainly, his plot is stock Brave New World. Julian, the boss of a sinister superorganization known only as "the firm," orders up a sex-goddess robot modeled after a dead movie star, lolanthe, whom he once loved. Due to circumstances that occurred in another time and another place, Julian is a eunuch, empty of everything but the desire for desire-what Durrell calls "the enormous cupidity of impotence." Once constructed, lolanthe II defeats him. With her warm nylon...
Such monastic concentration suggests that Doubell, a systems analyst for Shell of Australia, is Ralph the Robot. Far from it. Decked out in an antelope suede jacket, black hip-hugging bell-bottoms and tan suede shoes, he is more Ralph the Rapscallion, enjoying "the usual recreations of a young man." As speedy behind the wheel as he is on the track, he was hauled in last year for gunning his Chevelle Malibu down the San Diego freeway at 100 m.p.h. Two weeks ago, after setting a meet record in the half mile at Manhattan's Millrose Games, he jetted...
...other senior men at the Pentagon to call their boss "Mel," fits the vocation. So do his competitiveness in debate and his skill at cloakroom orchestration. Cartoonists err who portray him as a maniacal Strangelove, fondling a missile as if it were a kitten, or as a bullet-headed robot. His phiz, indeed, is a public-relations problem. The high, balding dome over intense eyes and small features makes him look a bit like Hubert Humphrey, minus H.H.H.'s winning innocence...
...always painful to watch on old idol topple. This time it was embarrassing as well. Isaac Asimov's contribution to the anthology was an agonizingly moralistic little tale entitled "Segregationist." It's all about this surgeon who is a robot, you see, and he's trying to convince a VIP who's qualified to receive an artificial heart to accept a fiber heart instead of a metal one because he doesn't like to see "mongrelization" between humans and robots--except that you aren't suppose to know until the end that he's a robot. That's because...
Thus last week, Engineer Mosher introduced CAM, G.E.'s "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine." Unlike the usual robot, the walking machine has limbs that respond to the actual movements of its human operator's arms and legs. Driven by hydraulic pressure and controlled by servomechanisms, the metal muscles exert far more force than their human counterparts. But they are attached to a sensitive feedback system that gently lets the handler "feel" what the metal limbs are doing...