It was a fairly enthusiastic book about the Japanese Fifth Generation Project and the potential of logic programming and Prolog, combined with the sort of "oh,

It was a fairly enthusiastic book about the Japanese Fifth Generation Project and the potential of logic programming and Prolog, combined with the sort of "oh, no, America has missed the boat on this technology and Japan will rule the future" lamenting that was so common in the 1980s. In retrospect of course, the 5th generation resulted in very little.