Msg: 2498 *Conference*

04-28-92 09:59:47

From: DREW BLANCHAR

To : JON SHURTLEFF

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #2482 (RIP DR.A)

Jon,
  Glad to  see you back.              
  Two small errors that I'm only correcting for the main public:
  Disney's "Black Hole" got rated PG just because it did have violence done by
a robot.... broken law way before the Terminator.  (And should we remember the
nasty machines of the original Star Trek series and movie that don't obey
humans but their own image of their creators?)  
   
 I believe Arthur C. Clarke passed over at his home in Sri Lanka a few years
ago.  That leaves us with Ray Bradbury (a folksy type of writer....maybe the
Norman Rockwell of Sci Fi) and the kids like K.W.Jeter (strange angles from an
Orange County child of the '70's.)
    
RE: the 3 laws of robotics......
 maybe we should also try to enact the 3 laws of humanity in this world today. 
  Be good to yourself and I hpe to read you here again soon.
-dB