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Dec 04, 2004 13:04

'The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.'

Isaac Asimov

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andrew_ December 3 2004, 22:45:46 UTC
Nice quote. I seriously need to read some of his books.. speaking of which I started re-reading Douglas Adams' unofficial last book, The Salmon of Doubt. Constantly finding myself smiling whenever I read it.

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strangelilgrrl December 4 2004, 02:46:03 UTC
You should read the I,Robot series, they're excellent. I haven't gotten round to reading the rest of his work yet. I've only read half of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's guide the galaxy..but it was good to where I got to.

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joygrrl December 4 2004, 06:11:14 UTC
So so true.

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softstone December 4 2004, 23:21:28 UTC
It's a shame to think that he wrote that almost 100 years ago.

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zipper_blues December 4 2004, 18:04:22 UTC
Which is pretty much the thesis of every William Gibson novel, in my mind, the superior sci fi writer, and the father of cyberpunk.

Author of the classic neuromancer, and well known short story "Johhny Mnemonic" (bad movie).

I don't like asimov very much. I,robot was a bit of a overdone story (when does humanity become synthentic/when does synthetic become human?), and I've seen it done better by other authors

/contrary wench

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softstone December 4 2004, 23:20:55 UTC
actually, the book was a series of short stories. the movie wasn't any good but I thought book was interesting.

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zipper_blues December 5 2004, 08:40:49 UTC
I agree. Some of the stories were kind of bad, but I love the umm.... well "Molly" continuem.

Gibson Clearly has a special place in his heart for two characters, Molly, and Rydell, and I found rydell (probably screwing the name up) to be something dra, wheras molly is a lot more interesting.

I mean... she took on a vat grown ninja.

That's just... cool.

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indigopurple December 4 2004, 23:32:21 UTC
I love the Foundation series like a newborn kitten.

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skythra December 5 2004, 00:23:54 UTC
Not going to add me to lj eh?

okay :C

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zipper_blues December 5 2004, 09:12:20 UTC
Ah the internet. where no one has any reservations over crying a river.

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skythra December 5 2004, 21:38:50 UTC
Sorry? Who are you?

I think you forgot to introduce yourself.

Im Aiden.

And whats the above post about?

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strangelilgrrl December 6 2004, 00:42:51 UTC
he's aragorn
sorry babe, changed my lj username.

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