Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!boulder!tramp!kessner From: kessner@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Eric M. Kessner, K.S.C.) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: What to do with all those MIPS Message-ID: <5697@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 27 Apr 88 21:47:20 GMT References: <8804191627.AA01551@martin-den.ARPA> <1061@aucs.UUCP> Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: kessner@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Eric M. Kessner, K.S.C.) Organization: Syncronix Enterprises - Boulder, Colorado Lines: 18 In article <1061@aucs.UUCP> 820785gm@aucs.UUCP (Andrew MacLeod) writes: >In article <8804191627.AA01551@martin-den.ARPA> seida%martin-den.ARPA@BUITA.BU.EDU (Steven Seida) writes: > >> >>I am reading the science fiction book "Necromancer" by ?????????? that >>seems to explore some of the possibilities of computing in the far- > >the book in question is actually called Neuromancer...., but i dont remember >the author. definately some strangeness in there. It was written by William Gibson, and if you haven't read it, I highly reccomend getting a copy. It contains some EXTREMELY intesting ideas about the future of computing, so it's worth picking up even if you don't particularly like SF. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Eric Kessner | "Oh no! John's been eaten by rats!" kessner@tramp.colorado.EDU | "You mean he's been 'E-rat-icated'?" ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()