They'd Rather Be Right won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1955, the second Hugo ever presented for a novel.
Two professors create an advanced cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy." Bossy can "optimise your mind...and give you eternal youth into the bargain, but only if you're ready to abandon all your favourite prejudices." However, when given the choice of admitting they were wrong and therefore being able to benefit from Bossy's abilities, most people would rather be right, and Bossy's ability to confer immortality is almost made ineffective by mankind's fear of "her."
They'd Rather Be Right was first published as a four-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction from August 1954 to November 1954. It was published as a book in 1957 by Gnome Press, and a heavily cut version was released the following year under the title The Forever Machine.
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They'd Rather Be Right won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1955, the second Hugo ever presented for a novel.
Two professors create an advanced cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy." Bossy can "optimise your mind...and give you eternal youth into the bargain, but only if you're ready to abandon all your favourite prejudices." However, when given the choice of admitting they were wrong and therefore being able to benefit from Bossy's abilities, most people would rather be right, and Bossy's ability to confer immortality is almost made ineffective by mankind's fear of "her."
They'd Rather Be Right was first published as a four-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction from August 1954 to November 1954. It was published as a book in 1957 by Gnome Press, and a heavily cut version was released the following year under the title The Forever Machine.
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