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james_davis_nicollA Logic Named Joe
Set in a future where everyone owns a Logic, a networked computer that can do everything in the way of information management from communications to book-keeping, this looks at what happens the day the censor circuits break down, or rather what happens to the poor sap in charge of fixing the situation. Re-used in X Minus One because it's a classic and more visionary than people in either 1950 or 1956 would have understood.
Interesting that it's his wife who has the key insight and not in the usual "your ditzy ravings have inspired my man-brain to thinkism!'
The Korean War continues to rage in the background; the news broadcasts are included as part of the file.
One detail Leinster got wrong is that he expected a few large computers, to which the many household Logics connect. It seems to me that cloud computing could lend itself to a similar approach; wouldn't things be secure if everyone's data was stored in vast server farms in various DHS-run locations?
Set in a future where everyone owns a Logic, a networked computer that can do everything in the way of information management from communications to book-keeping, this looks at what happens the day the censor circuits break down, or rather what happens to the poor sap in charge of fixing the situation. Re-used in X Minus One because it's a classic and more visionary than people in either 1950 or 1956 would have understood.
Interesting that it's his wife who has the key insight and not in the usual "your ditzy ravings have inspired my man-brain to thinkism!'
The Korean War continues to rage in the background; the news broadcasts are included as part of the file.
One detail Leinster got wrong is that he expected a few large computers, to which the many household Logics connect. It seems to me that cloud computing could lend itself to a similar approach; wouldn't things be secure if everyone's data was stored in vast server farms in various DHS-run locations?
