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[Don Kilmark NONLILLY]

Looks good as our first cut.

We did correct that novel author - The Door Into Summer was by Robert
Heinlein rather than A. E. VanVogt.

I got confused because my all-time favorite author is A.E. VanVogt - his
best novel was "The War Against The Rull"- old fashioned blood-and-thunder
style.

Anyway, what I was really getting at was when I mentioned the novel was the
ability to develop app and web components that adjust themselves ........
improve themselves over time - just like in the story, the protagonist
invents robots that improve themselves and re-invent themselves.
Of course, the "problem" is having an overall mission statement that can be
understood and carried out about what is "good" and "improved" - opinions
might differ (e.g. in the Terminator series, and in "Collosus The Forbin
Project", the machines decided humans were a blot on the universe).
Keep in mind that Heinlein's story does not follow Isaac Asimov's "I Robot"
ideals for robots - there is no prime directive to protect humans.

Please pardon my literary references. My nickname in the first two years
of high school was "Science Fiction".

Thanks,

Don Kilmark

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin

"A fool can throw a stone into the water which ten wise men cannot
recover." - Buckaroo Banzai

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