[Bradford] FYI

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Oh, you think so, do you?

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On 23 October 2014 07:33, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> <http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/4443/29406825/4840937/www.futilitycloset.com/>Things
> to Come
> <http://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=98091112&f=4443&u=29406825&c=4840937>
> Science fiction writer Murray Leinster predicted the Internet in 1946:
>
> I got Joe, after Laurine nearly got me. You know the logics setup. You got
> a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it’s
> got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get.
> It’s hooked in to the tank, which has the Carson Circuit all fixed up with
> relays. Say you punch ‘Station SNAFU’ on your logic. Relays in the tank
> take over an’ whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin’ comes on your
> logic’s screen. Or you punch ‘Sally Hancock’s Phone’ an’ the screen blinks
> an’ sputters an’ you’re hooked up with the logic in her house an’ if
> somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if
> you punch for the weather forecast or who won today’s race at Hialeah or
> who was mistress of the White House durin’ Garfield’s administration or
> what is PDQ and R sellin’ for today, that comes on the screen too. The
> relays in the tank do it. The tank is a big buildin’ full of all the facts
> in creation an’ all the recorded telecasts that ever was made — an’ it’s
> hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country — an’ everything
> you wanna know or see or hear, you punch for it an’ you get it. Very
> convenient. Also it does math for you, an’ keeps books, an’ acts as
> consultin’ chemist, physicist, astronomer, an’ tea-leaf reader, with a
> ‘Advice to the Lovelorn’ thrown in. The only thing it won’t do is tell you
> exactly what your wife meant when she said, ‘Oh, you think so, do you?’ in
> that peculiar kinda voice. Logics don’t work good on women. Only on things
> that make sense.
>
> From Leinster’s story “A Logic Named Joe.”
> <http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/4443/29406825/4840937/www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm> (Thanks,
> Bob.) See You’ve Got Mail
> <http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/4443/29406825/4840937/www.futilitycloset.com/2014/07/23/youve-got-mail/>
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