It's like an article about arranging a dinner party for mutually incompatible species of aliens. "At one Manhattan couple’s weekend home in the Catskills, books seem to have a life of their own." I blame Gumby.
("Don’t forget the oversize art books for those tall bottom shelves.") And sometimes your guests want to read a book they'd enjoy, not something you bought because it's the right dimensions to fill a shelf. The problems seem to center around that home away from home, the home away from home.Ī year ago it was the difficulty of getting an appliance fixer to come on a boat to Dolphin's Ass, MA and fix the stove in your summer home.īut what about stocking said home with books? Books don't buy themselves, you know (except on the Kindle). Once in a while we get a glimpse in the New York Times of the crushing problems that beset the incredibly rich.
Thinkin things 1 walkthrough update#
Of course, the easy solution is to update all those old stories by simply appending ".com" to the monolithic computer's ACRONYMAC name. All we can think of is people going to the computing center to use the monolithic communal computer, using the shared ship's computer, etc. I'm specifically interested in stories where a computer is assigned to or owned by a relatively average person, regardless of the computer's size or power. As has already been established this is exactly the kind of thing I don't know, so I'm sure my readers can provide lots of interesting examples. The usually-helpful Technovelgy doesn't help much here ( it does say there is a pocket computer in The Mote in God's Eye, a year before the Altair). Discussion was somewhat limited by the fact that neither of us could even think of anyone writing an SF story about the personal computer before it showed up in hardware. Sumana and I were talking about whether or not science fiction writers had envisioned second-order effects of personal computers, like screen savers.
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