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.
27 Nov
27 Nov
10:01 p.m.
PG Manney wrote:
I forget who (Murray Leinster?) wrote "A Logic
Named Joe", which very
closely describes the information explosion of the Internet.
Astounding Magazine, March 1946, under his real name of Will F. Jenkins.
Anthologised several times. I know I've got it around here somewhere,
have to track it down and reread it, it's been a few years.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
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