1933: "O tecnocrata robótico" por Nat Schachner apareceu em Wonder Stories , março de 1933 , aparentemente nunca foi reeditado. Eu não tenho uma cópia, então eu vou por Everett F. Bleiler 's review em Ficção Científica: Os Anos de Gernsback , citados abaixo.
In this world of 1954, the Depression still holds sway and the United States is politically shattered intoa welter of political parties: Extreme Communist, Communist, Socialist, Social-Laborite, Middle Class, Patriots, Fascist, Monarchy, Aristocrat, etc. Each of them constitutes a small dictatorship, with absolute leader, private army of storm troopers or strong-arm men, and a policy of ruthlessness. Most troublesome of all is the Nationalist Party headed by Adolph Hiller (whose referent the reader will not need a biographical dictionary to identify). The most palatable is the Reconstructionist movement headed by Corbin, who is a humane, reasonable man who does not see force as his first option. Europe and Asia have all gone either Communist or Fascist.
Corbin has received a summons from the long-disappeared Professor Kalmikoff, and together with his military leader General Wingdale and an attaché visits the scientist's hidden laboratory.
Kalmikoff explains. Since his withdrawal from society he has secretly been working on a supercomputer (my term) for the understanding and prediction of future history. By analyzing twenty variables, including those taken from individuals concerned, the machine will indicate what will happen. In a sense, as the scientist explains, it is a perfected, more sophisticated version of what the earlier Technocrats tried to do in simplistic fashion.
Corbin and Kalmikoff decide on a rash action: Kidnap all the party leaders, bring them to the lab, show them the machine, and let the machine predict the future that each man will create if he attains power. The caper succeeds, with one exception, Hiller is not picked up. But, as the machine is in operation, Hiller appears with his private army and takes over the situation.
The machine has shown disastrous futures for those it has "interviewed," and when Hiller voluntarily enters it, it shows a reign of terror. Hiller thereupon starts to execute everyone, but is interrupted in a grand shoot-out by friendly troops.
Hiller and a couple of the other extremists are killed. The survivors, now somewhat shocked into reason, agree to support Corbin when the machine predicts a favorable future under his leadership.