Let's Get Together

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A kind of peace has endured for a century, leaving people who have forgotten what anything else was like and would scarcely have known how to react had they discovered that a kind of war had finally come. Elias Lynn, Chief of the Bureau of Robotics, receives the news from a young Security officer who has come from Washington to the bureau in Cheyenne. The opposing groups use the terms We and They, while travelers report that the same terms are used in reverse on the other side.

The confrontation once called a Cold War is described as almost a good-natured game, governed by unspoken rules and a kind of decency. Macalaster of Security says the opposing side can make humanlike robots and transfer the micro-electronic pattern of a brain onto positronic pathways. Lynn concludes that ten men in the United States are humanoids, while observing that the originals would have had to be available to the opposing side.