Wed, 12 January 2005 Sometimes, science fiction has the science part pegged as in today's story from Dimension X. It aired on July first, 1950 and predicted that we would have home computers connected to the Internet and they would operate within logical parameters and make decision through the use of artificial intelligence. The show optimistically envisoned this would occur in 1974, but otherwise all was fairly spot on. It's too bad that in this story, the "logics" inform people with how to get away with murder. Who's in charge here, anyway? Could it be "A Logic Named Joe"?Comments[4] |


Sometimes, science fiction has the science part pegged as in today's story from Dimension X. It aired on July first, 1950 and predicted that we would have home computers connected to the Internet and they would operate within logical parameters and make decision through the use of artificial intelligence. The show optimistically envisoned this would occur in 1974, but otherwise all was fairly spot on. It's too bad that in this story, the "logics" inform people with how to get away with murder. Who's in charge here, anyway? Could it be "A Logic Named Joe"?