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Isaac Asimov

 * The Last Question
 * Science Fiction Quarterly (November)


 * A short story bearing resemblance to some aspects of Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory

Alfred Ayer

 * The Problem of Knowledge

Leon Festinger

 * with Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter


 * When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the End of the World
 * University of Minnesota Press.


 * cognitive dissonance, doublethink

George Miller

 * The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two&#58; Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
 * Psychological Review, 63, 81-97


 * ``That essay reviews psychological experiments that discovered people had a hard time remembering more than about 7 unrelated pieces of really dull data all at once. These studies on memorizing nonsense . . . Indeed, the deep point of Miller's paper is to suggest strategies, such as placing information within a context, that extend the reach of memory beyond tiny clumps of data.`` -- Edward Tufte


 * ``If the cognitive revolution erupted in 1956, the contextual revolution (at least in psychology) is occurring today.`` -- Jerome Bruner (1990) Acts of Meaning (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) p. 105-6 (more)