Talk Of Building A Computer...

From: PG Manney <manney_at_nwohio.com>
Date: Thu Nov 27 12:22:19 1997

> 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.
Received on Thu Nov 27 1997 - 12:22:19 GMT