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|    Bernard Peek to Doc O'Leary    |
|    Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti    |
|    12 Jan 14 20:47:07    |
      XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science       From: bap@shrdlu.com              On 12/01/14 17:47, Doc O'Leary wrote:       >> >Building a virtual train out of self-driving bits? That's kinda like       >> >building an internet by making self-driving packets. It'll never       >> >work.       > I don't even understand the analogy you're trying to make.              Actually it is a very close analogy because over the Internet packets       are self-driven. Each packet carries its destination address which it       uses to tell the hardware where the packet wants to go.                     --       Bernard Peek       bap@shrdlu.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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