Computer communications

Abstract

Of course, Henry Ford was wrong. History is not bunk. It just tends to look like bunk in the short range. Legitimately, historians must allow some time for the confusion of events to die away. They can then evolve theories about fading memories of the events. In his short story, The Ugly Little Boy, Isaac Asimov has a reporter say the following about a machine which recovers people from the past and makes them live in the present. You can only reach out so far; that seems sensible; things get dimmer the further you go; it takes more energy. But then, you can only reach out so near. It is the same with history.