Service Call

Dick, Philip K. "Service Call." Science Fiction Stories July 1955. Coll. Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, and The Best of Philip K. Dick, q.v. under Anthologies.

A small group of Americans in 1954 gets a glimpse of a future world controlled by swibbles: predatory organic machines that make sure everyone's ideology "is exactly congruent with that of everybody else in the world." Social deviants run the risk "that some passing swibble will feed on" them (Best of Philip K. Dick 260).