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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.   
      
      
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   Bernard Peek   
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