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- From: djb85@thor.albany.edu (Donald J. Byrd)
- Subject: The vision driving technological research
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.160605.27799@sarah.albany.edu>
- Originator: djb85@thor.albany.edu
- Sender: news@sarah.albany.edu (News Administrator)
- Organization: State University of New York at Albany
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:06:05 GMT
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- I am interested in locating responsible, speculative
- writing about technology: I am thinking, for example, of things
- like Eric Drexler's and Hans Moravec's books--the kind of imaginative
- writing which is rooted in current theory and close enough to
- current techniques to drive research. It seems to me an
- interesting new genre, somewhere between technical reports
- and science fiction. Perhaps if there were to be an anthology
- of such writings, it would begin with Einstein's letter to FDR
- about the possibility of nuclear weapons.
-
- I would, of course, be interested in readily available
- and obvious things I may have missed, but especially out of the
- way pieces. There was, for example, the transcipt of a talk
- by David Justin Ross, which was interesting in this regard,
- floating around the net a while back.
-
- I am interested in thinking about the process by which
- ideas move from the sci-fi realm to implementation.
-
- Thanks in advance for the help.
-
- Don Byrd
- State University of New York--Albany
-