#SCIFI #Heinlein 's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is substantial and I think still well worth reading for entertainment as well.
Buried in it is the assumption that an intelligent computer, one which developed a consciousness and personality, would display male or female traits, or traits we interpret this. Wyoh: Mike's a girl!
That's in the context of an exploration of humour, a long list of jokes funny/not funny.

But if a computer isn't #binary , what is?

#TMIAHM #Mycroft

Robert A Heinlein's #SF novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is rather good, very good for its time, and one bit occurred to me: the protagonist notes that engineering controls should not be centralised.

I like my house and garden robots and other gadgets, and I don't mind that I can control or monitor them from a distance, but I don't like that that has to go through someone else's central computer and that the details are kept secret.

#Google #Heinlein #TMiaHM

Heinlein's book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is in the space station (ISS) library along with a hundred more.

https://www.librarything.com/work/7930/book/70962580

#SF #book #library #ISS #space #spacestation #TMiaHM

( #Heinlein was a #photographer BTW)