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Appointment In Tomorrow
Fritz Leiber
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For this was the thinking machine beside which the Marks and Eniacs and Maniacs and Maddidas and Minervas and Mimirs were less than Morons. This was the machine with a million times as many synapses as the human brain, the machine that remembered by cutting delicate notches in the rims of molecules (instead of kindergarten paper-punching or the Coney Island shimmying of columns of mercury). This was the machine that had given instructions on building the last three-quarters of itself. This was the goal, perhaps, toward which fallible human reasoning and biased human judgment and feeble human ambition had evolved.
This was the machine that really thought—a million-plus!
This was the machine that the timid cyberneticists and stuffy professional scientists had said could not be built. Yet this was the machine that the Thinkers, with characteristic Yankee push, had built. And nicknamed, with charact. . . Read More
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“Appointment in Tomorrow”
Post-apocalyptic whistle-blower confronts a ‘wizard of oz’ political system.
Really didn’t connect with this story, other than the reference to Edgar Allan Poe. **
“Edgar Allen Poe,” he said frowningly, with eyes half-closed. The grizzled general snapped his fingers. “Sure! Ma
I could not read these words without being reminded of current politics: “A scientist tells people the truth. When times are good—that is, when the truth offers no threat—people don’t mind. But when times are very, very bad....” He went on, “A magician, on the other hand, tells people what they wish
"A scientist tells people the truth. When times are good—that is, when the truth offers no threat—people don't mind. But when times are very, very bad[...] A magician, on the other hand, tells people what they wish were true—that perpetual motion works, that cancer can be cured by colored lights, th
A story of betrayal, double crossed and crossed again. The Mars stuff was weird but it's prolific for the era. A lot of dialogue but that may have been because it's a radio show.
A story involving a mechanical Turk and the distinction between magic and science. Good short story with a lot of funs ideas.