Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: U-Haul (matter transmission) Message-ID: <964@shark.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 03:51:47 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.964 Posted: Tue Aug 7 03:51:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 01:05:34 EDT References: <2272@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 26 < They pelted us with rocks and garbage > For an interesting analysis of matter transmission as a stored record phenomenon, see "Farthest Star" and "Wall Around A Star" by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson. This was collected as "The Saga of Cuckoo" by Sci Fi book club. It has all sorts of interesting ramifications. The transmitter does NOT transmit. It makes a copy. Energy and matter are fed in the receiver and reformatted into an exact copy of the item (however complex) in the sender. They did get into the moral and human implications of this. Ignore the ending, it seems to be more of their rather insipid techno-humanist crapola. The real story comes in the effects of this one new technology on all the races, and the whole Cuckoo thing merely provides a not-too-original not-very-plausible conflict to catalyze the action. Hutch (\_____/) \*\ /*/ |\_=_/| \`_'/