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A Logic Named Joe (1946)
- brudgers 10y ago"A Logic Named Joe" is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that was first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The story actually appeared under Leinster's real name, Will F. Jenkins, since that issue of Astounding also included a story under the Leinster pseudonym called "Adapter". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe
- Animats 10y agoThat's the first appearance in science fiction of Google technology.
- rexpop 10y agoIt is very Google-like. A wonder, then, that we aren't all out robbing banks.
- qbrass 10y agoGoogle is like the logics in the story, but hasn't churned out a Joe yet.
- ProductPlacer 10y agoNone of this is anything like Google, not even slightly. I did not read the story and think to myself "gee, Google..." ...at least not until I came back here, and read these comments. Who are you people?
- Rorshagg 10y agoNone of this is anything like Google, not even slightly. I did not read the story and think to myself "gee, Google..." ...at least not until I came back here, and read these comments. What's with these weird statements?
- stan_rogers 10y agoThere was also a pretty good radio play adaptation on NBC's X Minus One, available at archive.org [0]. [0] https://archive.org/details/XMinusOne55122831ALogicNamedJoe https://archive.org/details/XMinusOne55122831ALogicNamedJoe
- Endy 10y agoI loved that episode - but X Minus One was an amazingly prescient sci-fi series.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoIt predicted the internet, much as it is today: http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Leinster/Logic-Named-Joe.html http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Leinster/Logic-Named-Joe.h... The other, better known prediction, is As We May Think by Vannevar Bush: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...