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To: higgmeister

I have not read them all.

But for about 35 years, I read an awful lot of them. I would go to the book stores and look for new ones.

I did not realize they were indoctrination into Progressivism, mostly.

Slow learner, I guess.


50 posted on 11/17/2019 5:32:51 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Regarding Science Fiction's prediction of the Internet:
"A Logic Named Joe" is a science fiction short story by American writer Murray Leinster, first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. (The story appeared under Leinster's real name, Will F. Jenkins. That issue of Astounding also included a story under the Leinster pseudonym called "Adapter".) The story is particularly noteworthy as a prediction of massively networked personal computers and their drawbacks, written at a time when computing was in its infancy.
I distinctly remember, in the book "Ender's Game" (1985), Ender's brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, made themselves famous on the "nexus" writing as the characters Locke and Demosthenes.

https://www.shmoop.com/enders-game/peter-valentine-wiggin.html

That was four years before the World Wide Web was born and over ten years before Internet browsers came into their own.

The thing that makes me keen on this especially, is that I hired on with MCI in 1983 and helped build the bulk of the early Internet backbone routers, servers and carrier systems at the time and retired from what later became Verizon Business after 31 years. I intensely felt the reality of creating what I had already read about way back.

51 posted on 11/17/2019 9:41:18 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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