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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1966:
The book popularized the acronym TANSTAAFL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations credits this novel with the first printed appearance of the phrase "There's no free lunch", although the phrase and its abbreviation considerably predate the novel.
The virtual assistant Mycroft is named after a computer system from the novel.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:04PM (1 child)
She already knew the language from her Babylonian studies, and so could control the neurolinguistic virus.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday January 07 2019, @11:38PM
Thanks - that rings a bell.
I'm still not buying it though. Just because you know how a virus works, that doesn't mean you can't be infected.