Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventeen consecutive dual meet wins ... A perfect 6-0 record so far this year, the closest contest leaving Army 29 points behind ... Charges of complacency and laziness surrounding this gifted squad...
Captain Jenny Stone, with a 5-0 record, leads the trio of Crimson racquet women who have posted perfect records for the season. Joining Stone are junior Margo McGlade, 6-0, and first-year sensation Courtney Stimpson...
...major theme, it is the implications of artificial intelligence. What is natural and unnatural, what is imaginary and what is real-and does it really matter-are questions that stream through the pages of A Perfect Vacuum like ghostly neutrinos. Each story is cast in the form of a review of a nonexistent book. Lem, of course, is both reviewer and conceiver of the unwritten texts. Some are fairly straightforward social and literary satires. Les Robinsonades dismisses Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a puritanized fiction based on a brutish factual account of a castaway (which it was), and presents...
Logic is the perfect vacuum, admitting no impurities but capable of breeding absurdities. A Nazi war criminal sets himself up as Louis XVI in the wilds of South America where he decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...
...sophisticated games when he reflects on the production of artificially intelligent beings. Indeed, God himself is considered as a vast cybernetic mind that may be the legacy of a first-generation universe that died billions of aeons ago. The machines of this universe were the laws of nature, a perfect solution to the problems of spare parts and maintenance. As for the problems of an unnatural nature, Lem writes that "if one considers 'artificial' to be that which is shaped by an active Intelligence, then the entire Universe that surrounds us is already artificial. " With such delightful leaps...