“ Right up till the 1980s , SF envisioned gargantuan mainframe computers that ran everything remotely , that ingested huge measure of information and regorge it in startling ways , and that behaved ( or were programmed to comport ) very much like human being … Now we have 14 - yr - olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960 . But computing machine in fable are still acquit in much the same way as they did in the Sixties . That ’s because in fable [ hokey intelligence ] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic , just like human role . ” — Walter Jon Williams , question byBibliophile Stalker .
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