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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
r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon
ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession
and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:
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
r, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyon
ning, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession
and public space; and fashion designer Miuccia Prada, who “requests your presence for tea this afternoon at Prada headquarters.” And thus, thanks to HUO, did the jet-lagged “great American visionary thinker” stumble and mumble his way through his first day in Milan, November 2011. HUO is sui generis:
ons” (as Kant put it) presented to them. It is important that we keep it that way, which will take some doing. One of the flaws in Weizenbaum’s book Computer Power and Human Reason, something I tried in vain to convince him of in many hours of discussion, is that he could never decide which of two theses he wanted to defend: AJ
tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L
and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea
ons” (as Kant put it) presented to them. It is important that we keep it that way, which will take some doing. One of the flaws in Weizenbaum’s book Computer Power and Human Reason, something I tried in vain to convince him of in many hours of discussion, is that he could never decide which of two theses he wanted to defend: AJ
tum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, L
and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. Judea
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