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...1. A New and Present Life 2. The Sacred Marriage 3. The Retrieval of Meaning 4. The Ghost in the Machine 5. The Disease of Translation 6. Another Voice...

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... was no one there.’ ‘Oh.’ Theo’s spirits drooped. ‘But I got through to a machine that said, “Welcome to the Sto- ryteller’s emergency answering serv... ...air seemed static with fear and, for a long, awful moment, he thought the machine was about to land on the roof of the house. He felt like he was go... .... ‘What is plastic? It is oil, the blood of the desert sucked up by giant machines. Then it is burnt and the fumes poison the sky and turn our lungs... ...buys fresh ones each day. They’re a natural barrier between a man and his machine, a reminder to remain independent of technology.’ ‘Let the poor da...

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...n- hound boxes of rivets, pliers, cutters, duplicate parts of the riveting-machines, spare pumps and chains. The big crane would be the last to be shi...

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...he defects of my organization were to be remedied. I was very stupid about machines, so I was to be greatly occupied with them; I had no memory for cl...

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...-bound boxes of rivets, pli- ers, cutters, duplicate parts of the riveting-machines, spare pumps and chains. The big crane would be the last to be shi... ...ing a corner in a hurry. After that alteration it made a beautiful salting-machine, if you held tight, because there was nothing to catch your feet wh... ...ous sun as falls impartially on the outside an’ the inside of the pampered machine o’ the trottin’-track, or the bloated coupe- horses o’ these yere E... ...thout traces er collar er breast-strap er somefin’,” said Marcus. “A Power-machine for sawin’ wood is most the only thing there’s no straps to. I’ve h... ...traps to. I’ve helped saw ‘s much as three cord in an afternoon in a Power-machine. Slep’, too, most o’ the time, I did; but ‘tain’t half as interesti... ... enjoy the profit of his labours. Let him work intelligently, an’ not as a machine.” “There ain’t no horse that works like a machine,” Marcus began. “... ...’ that doesn’t mean goin’ to pole er single—they never put me in the Power-machine—er un- der saddle,” said Rick. “Oh, shucks! We’re talkin’ same ez w... ...shark-mouthed, hair-trunk- thrown-in-in-trade son of a bronco an’ a sewin’-machine!” “I think we’d better get home,” I said to my companion, when Rod ... ... outcome of forty years of ex- periments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she...

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... launchers (like the German "Armburst"), mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine-guns and automatic assault rifles. Some of the weapons w...

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...ones was confidential clerk to Sir Roger. That is to say, he was a writing-machine of which Sir Roger made use to do certain work which could not well...

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...ink about things before answering and reckons on the phone people demand instant decisions and responses. We’ve a landline that goes to the answering machine so she can listen to callers and decide whether to respond.’ ‘Must be hard for her boss and staff.’ ‘Everyone emails her. When she’s home the internet’s always on and when an email arrives a little alarm sounds. It’...

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... between cells is what makes a healthy body such a perfect and beautiful machine. A healthy body has such an effective maintenance mechanism that i...

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...vna’s skirt. As though tears were the indispensable oil, without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two siste... ... who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine. But it appeared that the carpenter was repairing the harrows, whic... ...ing a bit of straw in his hands. “Why isn’t the carpenter at the thrashing machine?” “Oh, I meant to tell you yesterday, the harrows want repairing. H... ...lstoy dance with his words. That’s what will happen. He’s not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he’s angry,” she added, recalling Alex...

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... through long idleness, some little space was requisite before my intellectual machinery could be brought to work upon the tale with an effect in any ... ... to be a fixture there. In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely ... ...uisition. He soon manifested his fa miliarity with the ponderous and imposing machinery of antique physic; in which every remedy contained a multitud... ...ly infer that, besides the legitimate action of his own conscience, a terrible machinery had been brought to bear, and was still operating, on Mr. Dim...

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...rototypes for a new generation of Man. The body skeleton, made of modern metal clusters, that would never decay, was almost indestructible. His inner machine workings were covered in a flexible carbon hybrid. The carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and...

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...inks between (1) data conditioning and information management, (2) combined situation and impact assessment, and (2) knowledge representation between machine processing and user coordination. Various applications leverage DSmT “Advances” listed above along with DSmH (hybrid), DSmP (Probabilistic), and DSmT theoretical insights. The third volume attacks these application is...

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...neapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeling and coring 80 pineapp... ...motionless for 5 minutes while lying in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is diffi cult. For some, especially the very young, it’s nearly imp... ...’s Medical Center, has invented a revolutionary system that allows an MRI machine to compensate for slight movements—making this life-saving medical ... ... tissue and place the syringe into a CIS unit in the operating room. The machine washes the fat and adds an enzyme solution that isolates stem cel...

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...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

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...ased me any further, I would switch you off understand...” “Rather than thanking me you have started complaints. The humans are always rude to the machines they made.” Computer digital voice complained. This mini robot computer is an amazing invention of Dr. Jabran which has been developed and programmed in such a unique way that it counsels him in difficult times li...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...s it was directly ahead, the little brig, which was no better than a bathing machine, plunged into it, and all the forward part of her was under water... ... lift up the main stay; the blocks rattled and flew about; but the force of machinery was too much for her. ‘‘Heave ho! Heave and pawl! Yo, heave, he... ... so bound by the compression of her cargo, forced into her by so powerful machinery, that she was like a man in a straight jacket, and would be but...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...