"The Mind Machine"
| Title | "The Mind Machine" |
| Year for Search | 1919 |
| Authors | Williams, Michael |
| Secondary Title | All-Story Weekly |
| Volume / Edition | 95.2 |
| Pagination | 377-93 |
| Date Published | March 29, 1919 |
| Keywords | Male author |
| Annotation | Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, PSt |
| Author Note | The Internet Speculative Fiction Database identifies the author with the founder of Commonweal; Everett F. Bleiler’s Science-Fiction: The Early Years. A full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930. With author, title, and motif indexes (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990), 820, says probably not that Michael Williams. |
| Full Text | 1919 Williams, Michael. “The Mind Machine.” All-Story Weekly 95.2 (March 29, 1919): 377-93. Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73. DLC, PSt Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database identifies the author with the founder of Commonweal; Everett F. Bleiler’s Science-Fiction: The Early Years. A full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930. With author, title, and motif indexes (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990), 820, says probably not that Michael Williams. |
