http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/54-years-of-understanding-dna/ Watching Analogies in the World of Computers Fri, 15 May 2026 16:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/54-years-of-understanding-dna/#comment-7 Fr. M. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:01:26 +0000 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/54-years-of-understanding-dna/#comment-7 wow, stanislaw Lem is not dead ? or, rather, he was not in 2000... strange because I have now with me his book "the star diaries" which is crazily amusing. I am halfway thru it, just finished a story where a spaceship computer has assumedly gone mad and taken power of the ship which is lost. The hero of the book, Ijon Tichy, goes on a trip to find it and follows a trail to a planet which is run by robots who hate humans. The robots are quite medieval in their appearance and talk some bizarre language akin to pirate slang. He disguises himself as a robot to protect himself but is found. well, I'm not going to tell the whole story, only the ending, sorry: he discovers that there are actually no robots on the planet, only humans disguised as robots because they fear the other fake robots would kill them if they found out they were not robots. All this was masterminded by the computer gone mad which... oh, well, just read it yourself! wow, stanislaw Lem is not dead ? or, rather, he was not in 2000… strange because I have now with me his book “the star diaries” which is crazily amusing. I am halfway thru it, just finished a story where a spaceship computer has assumedly gone mad and taken power of the ship which is lost. The hero of the book, Ijon Tichy, goes on a trip to find it and follows a trail to a planet which is run by robots who hate humans. The robots are quite medieval in their appearance and talk some bizarre language akin to pirate slang. He disguises himself as a robot to protect himself but is found. well, I’m not going to tell the whole story, only the ending, sorry: he discovers that there are actually no robots on the planet, only humans disguised as robots because they fear the other fake robots would kill them if they found out they were not robots.
All this was masterminded by the computer gone mad which… oh, well, just read it yourself!

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