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Since: Aug 25, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 8:11 pm
Post subject: Binder of Organized Knowledge (BOOK) question
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A while back (well OK, it was over 2 years ago), someone asked a question to
which the answer was "The Ancient and the Ultimate". Someone else posted a
possible answer in which a book was described as a "Built-in Orderly
Organised Knowledge" device or BOOK.

Searching the internet indicates that the "Built-in Orderly Organised
Knowledge" comes from a R. G. Heathorn article that appeared in Punch in
1962. This article does not however mention the PENCIL which was included in
the posted definition.

I haven't seen the Asimov essay but websearches indicate that he used
"Binder Of Organized Knowledge" for BOOK.

I was wondering if the BOOK definition posted two years ago (and available
widely on the Web in a couple of versions) was a conflation of the Heathorn
and Asimov articles or nothing to do with Asimov's work at all.


Thanks,
Peter.

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