She was on a pediflow, and—like so many of the devices which twenty-first century ingenuity had made… — John Brunner

She was on a pediflow, and—like so many of the devices which twenty-first century ingenuity had made available to mankind—that was something which seemed to have been destined for an altogether more rational species than the one she belonged to.

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