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jeffos (Jeff Osier) writes:
>Does anyone remember a Danny Dunn (I think it was him -- whoever lived with
>Professor Bullfinch) story in which the Professor designed a tiny dragonfly
>that carried a camera, microphone, etc. and the "driver" was able to experience
>everything the dragonfly experienced?  Flew it around, etc....
>One of my all-time favorite books and I can't remember the title.  Too many
>years gone by, I suppose (I haven't read it since I was nine).

	'Twas one of my favorites, too.  "Danny Dunn--Invisible Boy" was
the title.

	I'm going to have to reread some of the Danny Dunn books--they
must be hilarious now.  I remember the first one I read, "Danny Dunn and
the Homework Machine", where the Professor, genius that he is, invents
the very first "miniature computer", which is supposed to be amazing
because it only covers one wall rather than taking up an entire building.  

	You program it by speaking English into a microphone, by the way,
but for some reason the Professor's astounding acheivments in natural
language processing go completely unmentioned.  Aside from that little
glitch, however, the book fairly realistic--the point of the story was
that using a computer to do your homework isn't cheating, because if
you're going to tell a computer how to do something, you have to know
how yourself.

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