Comments on: The Book With All the Answers

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:31:48 +0000

Are you referring to this: http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/universal_library.html ?

By: dave

dave — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:45:17 +0000

or say, ‘gadget, where is mr. greenjeans?’?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:30:29 +0000

Al: And now, all you need is to see those Dick Tracy comics on that gadget.

By: Al V.

Al V. — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:36:46 +0000

When I was a child, my local paper published “Dick Tracy” on the comics page, and I always liked his two-way wrist radio. Little did I imagine that 40 years later we would ALL carry two-way wrist radios in our pockets. And now I can even get a cell phone for my wrist: http://surprisinggift.com/Cell-Phone-Watch-Phones/c108/p1110/W08-Quadband-Touchscreen-Watch-phone-Wrist-Cell-Phone-Camera/product_info.html?language=en#googlebase.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:40:17 +0000

If there were such a book we would have a “truth machine”. I am not sure, but I think such a machine is a contradiction, along the lines of “All Cretans lie”.

By: Jonathan Kariv

Jonathan Kariv — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:41:42 +0000

You can find out where mr green jeans is right now by googling ??? Gee I was wondering where that book was.

More seriously the internet doesn’t always return correct answers because anyone can upload anything to it and this isn’t likely to change any time soon. So I’d imagine a perfect concise answer to everything will still be surprizing in some largish amount of time.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:28:27 +0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Should that book ever meet “The Big Questions,” would that not result in a large explosion that would consume the entire solar system?

Flee!

By: Nick Janusch

Nick Janusch — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:54:50 +0000

Interesting, today instead of trying to get the right answers we now search for the right questions.

By: thedifferentphil

thedifferentphil — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:30:38 +0000

It is interesting to contemplate how we all failed to predict the power of computers back when we were kids. The future was computers that could think and know everything, controlled by geniuses or more frequently controlling all of us. In the more positive visions, we could think a lot less, because the computers could think and work for us. Instead computing is widespread and can fit in your pocket, and it is a complement to education and thinking instead of a substitute. So, we all have access to Mr. Bunny Rabbit’s book, but knowing which answer is the right one and how to interpret it is not obvious without considerable education, knowledge and practice.

By: John Faben

John Faben — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:13:28 +0000

Bennet, it’s pretty easy for the book to answer that question:

“of course it won’t – stop trying to ask me tricky questions!”