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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
Message-ID: <693@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 01:37:18 GMT
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In article <4667@ecsvax.UUCP>, hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
: "The Feeling of Power" is an old SF story (50's or earlier?) about a man
: who re-discovered how to do arithmetic in a society which had become
: completely dependent on its machines.  (Does anyone else remember this one-
: and remember the author?)
The author was Isaac Asimov.  The punch-line of the story was that
the rediscovery of arithmetic would enable a military break-through:
the manned missile.