A Logic Named Joe — The Machine That Knew Too Much
Long before Google, before smartphones, before social media, before artificial intelligence entered ordinary conversation, Murray Leinster imagined a world connected by machines that could answer almost any question instantly.
He called them “Logics.”
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive from Atchison, Kansas, we explore A Logic Named Joe — one of the most prophetic science fiction stories ever written. First published in 1946, the story describes a networked civilization of interconnected household machines linked to a vast central information system called “the Tank.” But when one unusually…
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