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- Subject: Re: computers in literature
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:28:00 GMT
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- >>I need some help.... I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
- >>of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
- >>computers that talk and communicate like humans. I'm not so much
- >>interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
- >>distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
- >>being almost totally human-like.... .
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- Be sure to check-out "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by R. Heinlein. It will by in
- Sci. FIc. To me, it's the best description of computer potential in literature.
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- 2nd best is "The Adolescence of P-1" by ????. This should be in Sci. FIc. but
- is often mis-filed in psychology!
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- Heather Albright
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