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...hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People crowded around to see if it was human or mechanical* Boy and Sea Scouts made models for the Fisher Body Guild. A cutaway Buick motor, electrically driven, revealed the working...
...party to do it. ". . . But the most extraordinary part in my opinion is yet to come. There was nothing in it at all." Post-War conditions have bruised his optimism, but it is still unbowed. He can still look on the bright side of such threatening promises as the robot: "A being might be produced capable of tending a machine but without other ambitions. Our minds recoil from such fearful eventualities, and the laws of a Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative...
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...Manhattan, one "Joe Stone or No Name, the Miracle Man," who makes his living by acting like a robot, was fined $2 under an ordinance which forbids use of "mechanical or sound-making devices to attract passersby, thereby causing them to block the sidewalk...
Although it is often referred to as the "robot pilot," the Sperry device is not supposed to take the place of a plane's crew. The human pilot must take his plane off and land it. But once in the air and on his course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human...