Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.hasname.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!usenet.csail.mit.edu!.POSTED.hergotha.csail.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Things presented in-story as Good Ideas that seem like really Bad Ideas Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 19:44:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 19:44:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: usenet.csail.mit.edu; posting-host="hergotha.csail.mit.edu:207.180.169.34"; logging-data="47800"; mail-complaints-to="security@csail.mit.edu" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Bytes: 1964 Lines: 20 In article , James Nicoll wrote: >I read a review of NBC's Search (1972 to 1973) in which the reviewer >was greatly distracted by the agents' scanners. These were communication >and information gathering devices compact enough to fit into a tie- >clip or a ring jewel. They seemed to have infinite range and nothing >appeared to block the signal. The reviewer speculated that perhaps >they used phased neutrinos. > >Huh. Only 23 episodes. It felt like it ran longer than a year. Had it been British, that would be four years' worth. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)