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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
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In the story, the effortless use of the speakwrite further emphasizes that written history is much less certain than it seems.
Thanks to Alex Mair for contributing this item.
Isaac Asimov makes good use of this idea in his 1953 book Second Foundation; the transcription machine used by a high school student shows the Speakwrite in a consumer model. Comment/Join this discussion (BACK ON!) ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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