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Article #849The vision driving technological research
From: Donald J. Byrd
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:06
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:06
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I am interested in locating responsible, speculative writing about technology: I am thinking, for example, of things like Eric Drexler's and Hans Moravec's books--the kind of imaginative writing which is rooted in current theory and close enough to current techniques to drive research. It seems to me an interesting new genre, somewhere between technical reports and science fiction. Perhaps if there were to be an anthology of such writings, it would begin with Einstein's letter to FDR about the possibility of nuclear weapons. I would, of course, be interested in readily available and obvious things I may have missed, but especially out of the way pieces. There was, for example, the transcipt of a talk by David Justin Ross, which was interesting in this regard, floating around the net a while back. I am interested in thinking about the process by which ideas move from the sci-fi realm to implementation. Thanks in advance for the help. Don Byrd State University of New York--Albany
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!sarah!thor.albany.edu!djb85 From: djb85@thor.albany.edu (Donald J. Byrd) Subject: The vision driving technological research Message-ID: <1993Jan12.160605.27799@sarah.albany.edu> Originator: djb85@thor.albany.edu Sender: news@sarah.albany.edu (News Administrator) Organization: State University of New York at Albany Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:06:05 GMT Lines: 23