Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: What to do with all those MIPS
Message-ID: <597@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 88 08:32:56 GMT
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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's _Neuromancer_, by William Gibson.  Other books by Gibson:
_Count Zero_, a sort-of sequel to _Neuromancer_.
_Burning Chrome_, a collection of short stories, some of which were incorporated
into _Neuro_ and _Zero_.

New book on the way out: _Mona_Lisa_Overdrive_  (I've got my copy pre-ordered!)

Gibson is currently working on the first re-write of the script to Alien III.
Movie based on _New_Rose_Hotel_ to start filming this fall.  Script written
by Gibson and John Shirley (I think).  Gibson's actually involved in the
production of this one.

I don't know that _Neuro_ will give as much help in "what to do with all
the MIPS" as it will with "what should we try to build/interface with?"
-- 
Just another journalist with too many spare MIPS...
"The truth of an opinion is part of its utility." -- John Stuart Mill 
J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007