OT: Dr. Who

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>Thanks Bill.
>This tells me to actually tune in though the SciFi channel lots more!.

I would be happier if it was the SF channel as pedantic curmudgean that I
am, I hate the SciFi designation :-).

...
>Just another stupid question. Has there been the equivalent of the little
>robot dog?  Was it R5 or Astro or something like that? No, wait, that was
>George Jetson's dog!, Ruh Roh...  :-)  Dr Who was as good at character
>generation as Star Trek was. I still think the Holographic doctor in Voyager
>is the best idea of that whole series.  except, of course, Data is an Asimov
>positronic robot from way back when and you can't do much better than that
>for 40 or 50 years hanging around, until you get miraculously brought to
>life in an entirely different medium. Asimov must be slowly spinning around
>in his grave with a contented smile on his face.   He once wrote a story
>about a positronic car named Sally that could drive you around and such.
>Just recently I sat in a Lexus that parallel parked itself.  Sally isn't far
>off. :-)

One of my favorite robotics and time-travel stories is Heinlein's ``Door
Into Summer'', IHMO far better than anything Asimov wrote.

Bill
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