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The vision driving technological research

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From: Donald J. Byrd
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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