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Date: Sat,  7 Nov 1992 20:32:04 -0500 
>From: Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Human Computers....
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.robotics: 7-Nov-92 Human Computers.... by
Eskinder Sahle@csgrad.cs pl.na nasa slab. 
> Hello all:

	Hi there!
  
> I need some help....  I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
> of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
> computers that talk and communicate like humans.  I'm not so much 
> interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
> distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
> being almost totally human-like....  .
>  
> Thanks in advance.
> Ahmed 

	You might want to check out a book called _When H.A.R.L.I.E Was One,
Release 2.0_ by David Gerrold.  Very good as both a science-fiction
story and as a speculative paper about the future of computers, IMHO.

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