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pmg101yesterday at 8:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

An incredibly prescient parable for the modern information overload age, if so. Do you recall the title? I'd love to give it a read. Asimov was a master.


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zemyesterday at 8:29 PM

"Writing Time". it was the first thing I thought of too - the story definitely made an impression on me at the time!

gostsamoyesterday at 8:32 PM

here it is, not sure where you can find the text unless you traverse the high seas. I've read it in a story collection called after Azazel.

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Writing_Time