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for culture, it’s to the devious and unavoidable problem of global order I want to turn now. In a now-famous 1986 speech “You and Your Research”, the Bell Labs scientist Richard Hamming set three questions for anyone embarked on the exploration of new ideas: “1. What are the most important problems in your f
reakthrough. So after developing his algorithms, he wanted to find an intuitive demonstration. He decided to build a 175 In 1965: Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1976 p. 7 120 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018352 system that could, in a very limited sense, converse. The computer would take type
designed to evaluate arbitrary logical expressions, introducing the basis for universal digital logic. After MIT, Shannon studied communications at Bell Labs. Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; the farther they traveled, the worse they sounded. Rather than continue to improve them incrementally
e” software, hardware, and wetware; the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR); and the Open Humans Foundation. In his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum argued that machines should not replace Homo in situations requiring respect, dignity, or care, while others (author Pamela McCord
designed to evaluate arbitrary logical expressions, introducing the basis for universal digital logic. After MIT, Shannon studied communications at Bell Labs. Analog telephone calls degraded with distance; the farther they traveled, the worse they sounded. Rather than continue to improve them incrementally
e” software, hardware, and wetware; the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR); and the Open Humans Foundation. In his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum argued that machines should not replace Homo in situations requiring respect, dignity, or care, while others (author Pamela McCord
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