Edge: ENGINEERS' DREAMS By George Dyson

Citation added: July 30th, 2008, 4:33 pm
This George Dyson gem couldn't find a publisher in a fiction venue because it's too technical, and technical publications (including Wired) won't run it because it's fiction. Shame on them. Edge to the rescue: Google was more than a map. Google was becoming something else... For 400 years, we have been waiting for machines to begin to think. "We've been asking the wrong question," he whispered under his breath. They would start to dream first.
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Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962) (Public Domain) - Google Video

Citation added: June 30th, 2007, 10:41 pm
It's another classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl in terrible car crash, boy keeps girl's head alive in neuroscience lab while looking for attractive new body.
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