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Stanislaw lem kindle6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() With this knowledge, Terl can communicate with Jonnie and force the captive human to mine gold. Jonnie uses the machine to learn the alien’s language as well as Psychlo mining techniques–a pivotal event in the story’s plot. ![]() ![]() While the first commercial CDs would be released the same year Battlefield Earth was published, it would be another 13 years before video CDs and later DVDs would be broadly available for consumer use. The user places disks on various subjects onto a rod on top of the machine–similar to putting a CD in a boom box–and listens to the text as audio combined with images on a screen. In Battlefield Earth, which was first published in 1982, the evil Psychlo Terl gives the book’s hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a “learning machine.” ![]()
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