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RE: [MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging
On Tuesday, January 06, 1998 9:49 AM,
Ling[SMTP:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk] wrote:
> I'm gonna butt in here having read only a few of the posts in this
thread
> so forgive me if I repeat someone else:
>
> I read a short story either by Asimov or Philip K. Dick about time
travel.
> This historian knew such a machine existed and wanted to have one of
his
> own for observing the past. Anyway, to cut a short story shorter:
the
> twist in the end was that the machine could only view the past 100
years,
> however, it could be used for viewing the past 0.1 second so in
effect, it
> could to observe the now anywhere, anyhow.
Isaac Asimov. It ends with the (paraphrased) line, "Hope you enjoy
living in your goldfish bowl." I think it is called "The Dead Past."
Generally considered to be a pretty famous work of SF.
-Raph
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Time travel and Logging, (continued)
- [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP,
Brandon Cline brandon#sedona,net, Mon 05 Jan 1998, 09:41 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP,
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 20:16 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP,
Travis Casey efindel#polaris,net, Fri 09 Jan 1998, 05:46 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP,
Travis Casey efindel#polaris,net, Fri 09 Jan 1998, 06:04 GMT
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