Adrian Levi wrote:
But at only 49 years old it is unlikely to be out of copyright! A lot of the items on that site may be in the public domain, but an Asimov short story is unlikely to be one of them. I see nothing on the site that suggests that this individual has checked for copyright on the text that he has posted. He only says that the items are things that interest him.On 30/12/2007, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." Wernher von BraunReminds me of Asimov's "The Feeling of Power": http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html CelejarThanks for posting that, I really enjoyed reading that. I Asimov was a forward thinker. To write that in his time(1958), even now it has context and is believable...
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