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From: bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Book Review from BYTE
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Date: 26 Feb 89 02:45:37 GMT
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This month's (February '89) BYTE magazine has a review of a book that
seems somewhat germaine to this newsgroup:

	No Way: The Nature of the Impossible,
	Edited by Philip J. Davis and David Park.
	W. H. Freeman and Co., NY: 1987, 325 pp, $10.95
	(no ISBN)

A quote from the review:

"It is impossible to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen. It is
impossible to make music at a rate greater than 10,000 bits per
second. It is impossible to create a stable, strained-layer
superlattice.

These statements refer to achievments that were once considered beyond
the practical, physical, or conceptual boundaries of possibility. To
those who accepted them as being true, such statements defined the
limits of our ``real'' and logical world.

Each statement, however, has since been proved wrong..."

Looks interesting, I'm going to try to hunt down a copy.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||