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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein has as one of its central plot elements a mainframe computer that becomes sentient and able to converse with hum
by tkgally 3y ago
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein has as one of its central plot elements a mainframe computer that becomes sentient and able to converse with humans. It’s been more than fifty years since I last read the book, but it has returned to my mind often since the release of ChatGPT.
- dekhn 3y agoJohn Varley was inspired by Heinlein and ended up writing a whole collection of books about a post-earth solar system where every planet had a planet-wide intelligence (among other Heinlein-inspired ideas). The series (basically everything in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds) is pretty dated but Varley definitely managed to include some ahead-of-his-time ideas. I really liked Ophiuchi Hotline and Equinoctial