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The Age of Miracles produces an amazing suicide and a triumphant return from death. A million dollar prize is offered—and won—for the most perfect automation.
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The Revenge of the Robot - Otis Kline
THE REVENGE OF THE ROBOT
Otis Kline
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THE REVENGE OF THE ROBOT
THE REVENGE OF THE ROBOT
THE AGE OF MIRACLES produces an amazing suicide and a triumphant return from death. A million dollar prize is offered—and won—for the most perfect automation.—Ed.
THE dessert had just been served at the annual banquet of the International Society of Robot Fabricators, where five thousand members of the society and their guests sat at a huge V-shaped table in the auditorium of the American Institute of Science on Chicago’s lake front.
Orville Matthews, President of the United States, and himself a scientist of note, held a goblet close to the microphone before him, and tapped it gently with his spoon. The chatter of voices was instantly hushed as the sound was amplified in the vast auditorium.
The President stood up and shook back his mane of snow-white hair.
Most of you,
he said, "have some inkling of the announcement I am about to make, since the deliberations of our legislative body are not carried on in secret. You know that Congress voted an appropriation of one million dollars to be
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