27 Nov
1997
27 Nov
'97
4:22 a.m.
If anybody on this list reads science fiction in the
spare time left
over from rebuilding computers, _The Difference Engine_ by William
Gibson and Bruce Sterling is a fairly good read and _In the Country of
the Blind_ by Michael J. Flynn is an excellent one. Both of these
novels build from the premise "What if Babbage succeeded?" in very
different ways.
I forget who (Murray Leinster?) wrote "A Logic Named Joe", which very
closely describes the information explosion of the Internet.