[extropy-chat] FWD [Skeptic] Re: The Forbin Project

[Damien Broderick]

>The only story from that period that even came close to the modern 
>computer that
>I ever saw was Murray Leinster's short story "A Logic Named Joe".

`That period'? What *are* you talking about? FORBIN the movie came out in 
1970; the novel COLOSSUS was published in 1966, when mainframes were all 
over the place. Leinster's story was way back in March 19 *forty* 6. 
*That's* impressive.

Damien Broderick