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...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperback collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperbacked collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society...
...have spurred an increase in money-in-the-slot automatic retail selling. Machines now dispense 15% of the nation's cigarettes. Last year vending machines sold 2 billion cups of coffee, 20% of the nation's candy bars and soft drinks. More than 4,000,000 robot vendors offer everything from onion soup and insurance to a spray of French perfume or a 30-second sniff of oxygen to ease hangovers. And if the coffee isn't quite like home, it's at least hot and close at hand...
Sukarno: But this is the life of a robot...
...morning a robot control, operated by perforated tape, was set in motion to trigger an explosion atop a 300-ft. latticed steel pylon in the North African desert. The eye-melting flash turned the sky into brighter-than-day, and a mountain range on the horizon was illuminated like a stage setting. As the shock wave rolled outward, two men in Hammoudia blockhouse ten miles away were thrown on their faces. With this nuclear bang, set off last week in the heart of the Sahara, France shouldered its way into the world Atomic Club, as Member...