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  1. Newsgroups: comp.theory
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!math!wft
  3. From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
  4. Subject: Re: Human Computers....
  5. Message-ID: <BxF6zI.GF@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
  6. Nntp-Posting-Host: sss330.canterbury.ac.nz
  7. Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
  8. References: <1992Nov4.175006.13719@quintus.com> <3739@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
  9. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:09:18 GMT
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  12. |>  I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
  13. |> of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL.
  14.  
  15. The classic example, very like HAL, is the computer in 
  16. "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", by Robert Heinlein.
  17.  
  18. Incidentally, this book is worth reading, not just for the relationship
  19. between the hero and the computer, but also for the marvellous sense of
  20. realism engendered by the thickness of the peripheral details and comments;
  21. a thickness sadly lacking in most science fiction.
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  25. Bill Taylor
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