:-) One of the odd things about the history of computing is that almost everything we can do know was imagined almost from the beginning. A mixed blessing! Because it also means that we still don't know how to do what we didn't know how to do at the beginning, hence the failure of the project of AI.
V. Bush was quite sexist, wasn't he? But they all were, then, or almost all. Even the women. And his sexism probably blinded him to the social implications of the technology. Or maybe he was just very focused on science. He had quite an illustrious career; dean of engineering at MIT, and was largely responsible for the creation of the NSF.
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Date: 2007-12-09 05:41 am (UTC)V. Bush was quite sexist, wasn't he? But they all were, then, or almost all. Even the women. And his sexism probably blinded him to the social implications of the technology. Or maybe he was just very focused on science. He had quite an illustrious career; dean of engineering at MIT, and was largely responsible for the creation of the NSF.