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Kahn and Wiener find it probable, for example, that the next 33 years will bring $20 battery-run TV receivers, three-dimensional film, home computers, prisonless penology and electronic prying into the human brain. Less likely, though still possible, are the laboratory synthesis of fetuses (possibly human ones), robot athletes competing in the Olympic Games, thought control, programmed sleep and laser beams capable of boring tunnels, taking a portrait of the atom, and detecting enemy missiles within a tolerance of inches...
Driven by a compulsion to make science understandable to the intelligent layman, Asimov has written 96 books and hundreds of magazine articles dealing with nearly every scientific specialty, from The Genetic Code to The Neutrino. Stories such as I, Robot and The Martian Way have placed him in the top rank of U.S. science-fiction writers. And a recent magazine poll showed that a way-out Asimov trilogy written in the 1950s about the universe of the future is still rated first in popularity among science-fiction fans. Asimov has also been published in periodicals ranging from Playboy to Atomic...
...least three months to learn it. With Sim One's help, the training time may be cut to two days. Developed under a $272,000 U.S. Office of Education grant by the University of Southern California School of Medicine and Aerojet-General's Von Karman Center, the robot is life-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.). Its skin feels like skin, and it comes equipped with a tongue, vocal cords, an esophageal opening and bronchial tubes...
...muscle relaxant succinylcholine, for example, can be injected into the robot's body, and will cause twitches in the neck area the way it does in humans. The robot's teeth are bedded in such a way that too much pressure on the anesthesiologist's equipment can knock them out. At operation's end, Sim One opens its eyes and blinks-if all goes well. If all goes badly, Sim One "dies...
...name suggests, Sim One is the first in what is expected to be a long line of medical robots. U.S.C.'s Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, who developed the robot with colleague Dr. J. S. Denson, expects that future generations will bleed and sweat, perhaps even groan...