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  • (tears) The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes

    From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Apr 21 22:05:32 2024
    The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes

    In which an AI completely transforms a city's problems.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/feel-so-cold
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  • From Don@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 22 01:30:11 2024
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes

    In which an AI completely transforms a city's problems.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/feel-so-cold

    Excerpts follow:

    C3 ensures there will be no protests. Almost everyone watches
    television. Television is within C3’s control. It’s a simple
    matter to brainwash the population into obedience.

    Conspiracy Theory: Does C3 contain a hidden meaning? Perhaps C3 = C^3 =
    CCC = Союз Советских Социалистических = Union of Soviet Socialists ?

    It’s made clear that bosses are always men and secretaries are
    always women.

    Seems like something straight out of Francis Bacon AKA Shakespeare's
    playbook. The truly brilliant Bacon writ English mythology large.

    Danke,

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  • From John Savard@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 22 03:03:00 2024
    On 21 Apr 2024 12:05:32 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
    wrote:

    The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes

    In which an AI completely transforms a city's problems.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/feel-so-cold

    Looking up information about her, "Keeper of the Isis Light" is the
    only work of hers whose title even sounds vaguely familiar to me;
    presumably, unlike "The Tomorrow City", that is one of her better
    works.

    But as I never became acquainted with her oeuvre at all, I can hardly
    say for sure.

    John Savard

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