X-Message-Number: 3793 Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 11:32:51 From: (John de Rivaz) Subject: Re: simulations This is the subject of the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F Galouye. My version is by Bantam books dated July 1964. Here is the blurb on the back: The world of the future built its policies on public opinion samplings! But Rien Reactions Inc realized that old-fashioned public opinion polls were too slow, inaccurate and unstable on which to base a conforming society. So scientific researchers Morton Lynch, Hannon Fuller, and Douglas Hall built a total environment simulator, Simulacron 3, into which they fed subjective analogs and got human reaction results... But Lynch dissappeared, Fuller was murdered, and Hall was changed with both crimes. Then Hall discovered that his world was nothing but a total environment simulator for a governing world as large to his as his was to his own miniature simulator world - and that he was marked for extermination! -- Sincerely, **************************************** * Publisher of Longevity Report * John de Rivaz * Fractal Report * * details on request * **************************************** **** What is the point of life if it ends in death? **** Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3793