Notes on Nostos: Vector Literature in the Vector Medium
David M. Berry The "Development Guide" for Nostos "Welcome to my Island," Calypso. "Of those replying to a question on the risk of ultimate 'takeover' of human affairs by intelligent machines, about half regarded it as 'negligible', and most of the remainder as 'substantial' with a few voting for 'overwhelming... A danger could then arise of city dwellers becoming dependent on systems which could no longer be fully understood or controlled. Counter-measures to such dangers might include the introduction of auditing procedures for computer programs, research on program-understanding programs, and system-understanding systems generally, and, finally, the advent of programs to teach the users of intelligent systems" Donald Mitchie, 1973. "To the first writers who spoke against the old style of authoritative rhetoric, the problem of the author's voice in fiction was extremely complicated. [Henry] James's Prefaces, fo...
