Rah, Rah, RAH
Apr. 18th, 2005 06:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowR. A. Heinlein shoots and scores again, from beyond the grave...
(His reputation as a prognosticator is overblown, of course; I saw an analysis recently of one of his famous lists of predictions - non-fiction, mind you - which suggested his accuracy was actually rather low. Still, it's fun to see this sort of thing.)
(His reputation as a prognosticator is overblown, of course; I saw an analysis recently of one of his famous lists of predictions - non-fiction, mind you - which suggested his accuracy was actually rather low. Still, it's fun to see this sort of thing.)
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Date: 2005-04-18 05:01 pm (UTC)That its name is "HAL" reminds me too much of 2001: A Space Oddyssey. "I'm sorry, Dave, but I really *don't* want to walk down that street. Today we are going where *I* want to go." Bwaahhaaahaaa...