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[David Morris]

These "prophecies" of the (present) future from the past of IV seem
pretty pointless, don't they?

There's a short story I read quite while ago called "A Logic Named
Joe," which really does portray a world full of PC's all connected to
something identical to (but not called) the Internet, written back in
1946 before either existed.  THAT was prescient fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe

The story:
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm

"It was on the third day of August that Joe come off the assembly
line, and on the fifth Laurine come into town, an' that afternoon I
saved civilization. That's what I figure, anyhow. Laurine is a blonde
that I was crazy about once—and crazy is the word—and Joe is a logic
that I have stored away down in the cellar right now. I had to pay for
him because I said I busted him, and sometimes I think about turning
him on and sometimes I think about taking an ax to him. Sooner or
later I'm gonna do one or the other. I kinda hope it's the ax. I could
use a coupla million dollars—sure!—an' Joe'd tell me how to get or
make 'em. He can do plenty! But so far I've been scared to take a
chance. After all, I figure I really saved civilization by turnin' him
off."



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:39 PM, David Payne<dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyhow, don't think that I've seen this take on the title.
>
> "Vice" = cops. So cops as something inherent? Perhaps this as an emerging trend in '69/'70 ...
>
> Very Big Brother, and something that pops up explicitly later in the book, with the idea that once the internet is up and running The Man will see Everything You Do...