From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Smith & Wolfe: Robots
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:18:06 +0100

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
> 
> > Yet, the motif is so broad that "great minds think alike"
> > could easily account for it. 
> 
> As also could "It'll steam engine when it comes steam engine 
> time," my favorite expression of the idea that certain ideas 
> seem to float about in the cultural aether, waiting to be 
> grabbed and instantiated. 

"The Quest Of Saint Aquin" would seem another possible precursor.


    hartshorn


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