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[ih] Fiction->History
- Subject: [ih] Fiction->History
- From: larrysheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:36:33 -0500
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On 9/24/2015 11:56, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> A few more obvious ones comes to mind:
>
> "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
>
> "Colossus: The Forbin Project" - and lots of variants on that theme (up
> to, and including, the Terminator movies -- and what with automatically
> swarming drones now a reality, somehow Skynet seems to loom on the near
> horizon!)
This one is interesting (I may have read it--the other two I don't
recall) because I got to meet Tony Sale* and was given a tour of the
reconstructed "Colossus", the actual first digital computer (before ENIAC).
>
> "Shockwave Rider" - which seemed to get an awful lot of things right,
> for its time
Was the network a protagonist in these?
*
http://www.computerweekly.com/photostory/2240115075/Colossus-the-worlds-first-electronic-programmable-computer/1/Colossus-and-the-late-Tony-Sale
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