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From: seida%martin-den.ARPA@BUITA.BU.EDU (Steven Seida)
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Subject: Re: What to do with all those MIPS
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	  Does anyone have any thoughts about whether (of if or when) huge leaps 
	  in compute resources might result in fundamentally *different* ways of
	  using computers?   ...
	
	                                                  --Peter Nelson
	
I am reading the science fiction book "Necromancer" by ??????????  that 
seems to explore some of the possibilities of computing in the far-
distant future.  The basic concept is that their is a one big network
that everyone can have access to through a user interface that effectively
plugs into your brain.  And that accessing information becomes the real
interest of computer wizards. Solving problems takes a back seat and
is mainly directed at breaking through protection software.

Maybe a little shadow of the present.

					Steven Seida