Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency really reads very 80s now. In a few decades people will have to look all this up though the story will hold up.
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Watched Die Hard for the first time last year. It's so 1988: West German terrorists take hostages at a Japanese office tower in LA.
1989, the Berlin Wall fell. 1991, the Japanese economy, which people thought would soon overtake the US, crashed and has never been the same.
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Doubting that symbolic logic expert systems were at all relevant to meaningful AI development was a good call, though.
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Bolero reference in that passage pins it pretty tightly to the 80s as well (specifically to post-Sarajevo Games 1984).
The bit about Prolog being (how to put this politely?)… fascinating and niche… is basically timeless.



