IST 1100
3/23/13
The writing in this story was out of this world and very hard to comprehend at times.
Which is why I loved everything thing about “A Logic Named Joe” it was funny and witty. I was truly
surprised when I saw it was written in 1946 the author predicted what computers would be like very
accurately when computers back then were practically still in the womb. Man, I really wanted to
know what the best way to make a lot of money was, out of curiosity of course.
The author described computers like a big TV where you preview anything you want on it just by
punching the screen and brings up what you asked for. He said it would have a keyboard, software,
processing, and it would be in homes and business around the world (which we have today on our
computers). He also predicted video (you tube), communication (skype) internet, censor ship for
young kids (still working on that) etc. of course he couldn't have predicted that once something is on
the internet it is on there forever.
The author mentions something called “The Tank” in the story and all I could think of when I read
it was the “Think Tank” from an episode of Psych. Of course, there is no correlation between the two
(eh) I just love that show. Anyways, “The Tank” the author refers to is a set of information to
translates to servers on the web which then would come up with whatever result it wanted to.
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