Re: The Book of the Machines (Butler): Introduction

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 09:42:42 MDT

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> "Remarkable" is right! Historians of cybernetics should definitely have this
> brought to their attention -- it's a truly amazing passage. I read Erehwon
> 25 years ago or so and, while this material may well have left an unconscious
> imprint on me, I did not recall it at all.
>
> This should DEFINITELY be in the "extropian canon" of predecessor works.

I don't yet have the post you're responsing to, so you may know this
already, but the entire text of _Erewhon_ is available on the web at
<http://server1.softdisk.com/comp/naked/htmltext/erewhon.html>.

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