*********In a normal wet day at Repairshop Ltd. things were not so normal. One android type ZW6 has being left to the shop to be repair from it's severed damaged. The rare type of AI - had all internal system crashed to the point of total paralyzing. Two of the robots on 'jour' were making all the repairs. After 12 hours of excellent work these small machines started to make progress. ********** The smal mahines: Mapps freebie to us!As well SF Gear(the glass tubes/incubators.) The cables/wires,Morell's freebies. Pipes in the floor,good 'old friend Jenay's freebies. Always when I need some gadget to put in a sci fiction scene I go back to Jenay! __________________________________________ text below source:http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/scifi.html By Jason Pontin. Technology Review (March 12, 2007; from the March / April 2007 issue). "To this day, my tastes and choices as an editor and journalist are bluntly science fictional: I look for technologies that are in themselves ingenious and that have the potential to change our established ways of doing things. Best of all, I like technologies that expand our sense of what it might mean to be human. In this, I believe, I am an entirely conventional technologist. Most of us came to technology through science fiction; our imaginations remain secretly moved by science-fictional ideas. ... Robots first appeared in Karel Capek's play R.U.R. in 1921. Indeed, it is more useful to ask, What hasn't SF predicted? But the prescriptive power of science fiction has functioned both positively and negatively. Older computer scientists and electrical engineers such as Marvin Minsky and Seymour Cray, born in the mid-1920s, pursued a vision of humanlike artificial intelligence and mainframe computing popularized by science fiction after World War II (see Isaac Asimov's 'Multivac' stories)." _______________________________ Appreciate very much you coming here and leaving your comments. That's a joy in my day! * - * smack!* -*