![]() ![]() The death of Mike and the Professor were both pointless and contrived.Heinlein was unaware of the uncanny valley, so this is forgivable, but Mike, powerful as he was, wouldn't be able to so easily create a believable human facsimile.Everything is still done with printouts and hardware with circuitry so large it can still be damaged by rogue insects. He describes them merely as faster versions of 1960s computers. Heinlein's description of futuristic computers is pretty uninspired.The idea that the Earth had the technology to build interplanetary spaceships, but didn't have a way to safely stop incoming bogies that can't perform evasive maneuvers was difficult to believe.Why was Mike equipped so well when he was just supposed to run the catapult and basic systems of the moon? Shouldn't the Earth computers have been far more impressive? ![]() The likelihood that Mike would become the first sentient AI without any notice from scientists or researchers seems especially slim.It's interesting to hear about the various marriage systems put in place to handle a population that's only 1/10th female. ![]()
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