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>From: mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik)
Subject: Re: _The Turing Option_
Message-ID: <1992Aug27.150825.15153@highlite.uucp>
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:08:25 GMT
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D.J.Butcher@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Butcher) writes:
|Jason Asbahr writes:- (in <COSC176T.92Aug26010939@menudo.uh.edu>)
|...
|>_The Turing Option_ came as a welcome change to the recent endless
|>stream of near-future sci-fi novels that paint only scarred and
|>desolate futures.  Though everything isn't beautiful, and people
|>are still people, it's a hopeful vision.

|Lets be honest, we live in a pretty scarred and desolate present.

Let's see, you're a university student, with net access if nothing else,
living in a somewhat civilized country.

How many billions of people would gladly trade places with you?

Then again, if you're generalizing, I definitely agree..

	-Mike

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