Comments on: Your Heart has Been Hacked https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/your-heart-has-been-hacked/ News and Opinions from Around the World Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Michael J. McFadden https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/your-heart-has-been-hacked/#comment-1247 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:02:17 +0000 http://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/?p=1024#comment-1247 In reply to Samuel Shiro.

It’s in the incredible “Dangerous Visions” collection edited by Ellison in the 1970s. Amazing for its time, and STILL pretty amazing. Many wonderful and disturbing short stories. LegIron would have been right at home there!

– MJM

]]> By: Samuel Shiro https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/your-heart-has-been-hacked/#comment-1246 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:49:23 +0000 http://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/?p=1024#comment-1246 In reply to Michael J. McFadden.

Thanks for the tip, that actually sounds like something I would enjoy reading.

]]> By: Michael J. McFadden https://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/your-heart-has-been-hacked/#comment-1208 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:07:02 +0000 http://www.thedailyopinion.co.uk/?p=1024#comment-1208 ” if we are at the mercy of computers then, by implication, we are at the mercy of those who control them. That could be a fat guy in his garage, a well-known hacking group like Anonymous, or even the more likely possibility of the Government being in control.”

There’s a wonderful sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison titled ” ‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said The TickTockMan ” that is based on such a premise. The societal dictator, who kept everything running like “clockwork” could stamp the timecard of any noncomforming citizen. Heh, of course “The Harlequin” — who abhorred such orderly dicates — had a bone to pick with that!

– MJM

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