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Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 00:33:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 00:33:03 1986
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Summary: I've read this story ...

In article <326@inuxm.UUCP> arlan@inuxm.UUCP (A Andrews) writes:
>After watching Mr. Neumann's presentation on the Carson Show, I wrote a
>short story which I sent to IASFM about a person who invented such a
>machine, and the effect it had upon the society to which it was
>introduced.
>I will say this now, and wiat for the flames:  I myself can construct
>(as does my character in the story) a machine that once I have turned it
>on, utilizes "free energies" from natural phenomena, never e requiring me
>to input anything else--"something for nothing".

Quite a while ago, I read a story which started with a young man
strumming a guitar while a young lady was doing something very
organic -- spinning or something -- in their nice little commune.

[The words here are just to give the impression of the story: very
60's, very laid-back, non-establishment, peacenik, hippie, whatever.
I was there too; I don't need to be told about it.]

The young man gets an idea, develops it, comes out with a
something-for-nothing machine.  He then decides to leave his commune,
go to business school, buy some suits, and cover his machine with
fantastic working camouflage.  He then marketed it and sold it,
trusting that the basic working principle would quickly be uncovered,
stolen, and made available to the entire world -- which it was.  The
end of the story has him returning to the little commune, where the
girl upbraids him for not remaining true to his principles, and not
giving up everything in the world.  The young man, looking around at
everything he had wanted in the world, has no reply.  Nice little bit
of irony, there.

But it was written back then, or just after.
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}