In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#768GH)
In 1932, a 22-year-old John W. Campbell - later the Astounding editor who shaped midcentury science fiction, and, as has been well documented, an open fascist - published "The Last Evolution" in Amazing Stories. It's narrated by the last thinking machine on Earth, recalling how humanity went extinct. - Read the rest
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