From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA
Date: 1996/09/21
Date: 1996-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <R.dewar.843307118@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 51bhv6$km6@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.
"Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>Any sufficiently advanced technogoy is indistinguishable from magic.
>Who said that? ;-)"
I just read a Startrek novel where they got around the prime directive
and could use their modern technology because the society involved (based
on 14th century Germany) believed in magic and could accept the technology
as magic without causing culture clash :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-09-21 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-09 0:00 [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA Jonas Nygren
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-21 0:00 Douglas Rupp
1996-09-21 0:00 Douglas Rupp
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox