At 12:22 PM 5/9/98 -0700, you wrote:

You're definitely right about _Neuromancer_ pre-dating BGC, but Philip K.

Dick's novel _Do Androids Dream Of 

Electric Sheep_, on which _Bladerunner_ was based, was 
written in the 1970's, so it's hard to tell who 
pre-dates who. ^_^  (_Neuromancer_ came out in 1984, 
I believe.)

1982, I thought.  I may be wrong.

The concept of AI, and the relationship with human intelligence and the
casting of one's mind into a computer network has been around since the
50's and 60's....  It just wasn't taken up with the kind of fascination
that surrounded it during the 80's.


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