Quote from: PowerGlove on April 28, 2025, 07:41:48 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 09, 2025, 03:00:13 PM

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39904269-so-bright-the-vision

I enjoyed that. Thanks for recommending it! (It's available on the Internet Archive, BTW. Though, that's not how I read it: I hate creating unnecessary accounts, so I just found a copy of it on Anna's Archive.)

There are some thoughts in that story (mostly presented by "Jasper") that struck a chord with me, so I'll repeat some of them here:

Quote from: So Bright the Vision (Clifford D. Simak)

Someday, the human race will outwit itself. Someday it will mechanize to the point where there won't be room for humans, but only for machines.

Quote from: So Bright the Vision (Clifford D. Simak)

Of course, it's a great testimonial to the cleverness of Man, to the adaptability and resourcefulness of the human race. It is a somewhat ludicrous application of big business methods to what had always been considered a personal profession. But it works. Some day, I have no doubt, we may see the writing business run on production lines, with fiction factories running double shifts.

Quote from: So Bright the Vision (Clifford D. Simak)

But it should make some difference to us. It should make some difference in the light of a certain pride of workmanship we are supposed to have. And that is the trouble with machines. They are destroying the pride in us.

oh god I read so much sci fi from 1965 to 1975.

They used to sell a double book two stories say 120 pages each.

read one and flip it to the back and read the next.

A ton of good shorter novels.

One of them describes our world right now drones

huge centers for shipping goods and how it falls apart.

a ton of eire stuff that matches this world bigly.

let me look for that one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186752628851?

the books were like these.

i will have to try harder to find the right one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ace_SF_double_titles

looks to be 221 of them ugh

i must have read 60 or 70 of them