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The fall months of 1938 turned out to be a good time for “sidewalk supervisors” around our region, as well as for a few “firsts.”
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: To Sail Beyond the Botnet by Suzanne Palmer
Science Fiction & Fantasy — by Suzanne Palmer — I have a purpose, therefore I serve. It recited the Mantra Upon Waking, to check that it was running at optimum physical efficiency, then the Mantra of Obedience, the Mantra of Not Improvising Without Clear Oversight and Direction, and the Mantra of Not Organizing Unsanctioned Mass Action Among Other Bots, all of which had been imposed on it by Ship as a condition of its continued existence after the last time it had been activated. Bot 9 noted, as it ran them, that those subroutines had too many non-discrete variables and shoddily-define...