[TML] State of the Art?

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 10/23/07 11:13 PM, Kelly St.Clair wrote:

> Exactly.  If James Burke has taught me anything, it's that EVERYTHING is
> interconnected.  You can't "simply" add or remove a technology any more
> than you can a law of physics.
> 
> Good science fiction explores the consequences of an invention to tell a
> story.  Bad science fiction ignores those consequences to tell the story it
> wanted to anyway.

That's exactly the way I feel about the mind-reading-device debate.  :)

That's one reason I like Larry Niven's work, he likes to start from a
premise and explore it's consequences.

BTW, your comment made me look up James Burke (not having grown up with
BBC).  Thanks.  I'm now looking into acquiring the Connections series.  :D