Future holodecks.
(On an only associatively related note: an interesting obituary at the Times for Star Trek 'superfan' Joan Winston.)
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- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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re: Joan Winston
ReplyDelete“She didn’t let the status she had among the ‘Trek’ fans go to her head,” Mr. Rayburn said. “She was just one of us.”
One of the good features of status hierarchies is that there are so many of them!