I joined Nick's km list (Knowledge Management discussion) in March 1998. I only found out about Brin-L's existence in March of this year.
My experience as a Science Fiction reader starts with Jules Verne when I was a kid. My all time favourite was Robert A. Heinlein, I also enjoyed Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip José Farmer, Alan Dean Foster, Frank Herbert,Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and others (I still have all my books at the farm where I broke my back -- maybe if we get summer here in Toronto, I'll be able to get them after nine years.) I'm afraid that I was not familiar with the work of the Killer Bees so I ordered several books by them and a video from the library. Imagine my surprise to find out that I will get to know what happened to Hari Seldon through the Second Foundation! Also today my wife and I saw Kevin Costner in "The Postman", it was a long movie so we had a before and after lunch session and we thoroughly enjoyed it. When I reviewed the IMDb user comments for The Postman (1997), I could not understand how polarized the critics were -- either they loved it or they hated it. http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0119925 So just think of it. Had I never signed up for Nick's KM list I would have missed all this. I call that Serendipity. Cheers! -- Han Tacoma ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
