Dick Sheckley’s satirical Fifties sf story about a dystopian world where people can perform complex computer programs inadvertently, by bumping into things.
That must have been where Douglas Adams got the Infinite Improbability drive! (I know, but the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Maybe I should try Sumatran.)
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Date: 2016-01-27 04:02 pm (UTC)I didn't know Robert's brother wrote!
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Date: 2016-01-27 05:00 pm (UTC)