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"I do think there is a link in that in both cases, writing fiction or writing a computer program, at any given moment you're focusing on a very specific and particular thing—one word, one line of code, whatever."
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This is a very early reference to this idea; as far as I know, this is the first.
For similar ideas, see the Visiplate from Skylark Three (1930), the Vision Plate from First Contact (1945) and the Reading Plate from The Star Beast (1954). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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