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and Peace 129 Watson computer 8, 207 Watson Research Laboratory 5 wave interference 320 wavelength 102 weather predicting 168, 172 Wechsler Test 27 Weizenbaum, Joseph 25 West, Mae 78 Whitehead, Alfred North 195 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 347 Wikipedia 8, 129, 231 Wilder, Billy 128 Wiles, Andrew xi, 75,

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Age is also the Dysinformation Age. What can we do? We need to rethink our priorities with the help of the passionate but flawed analyses of Wiener, Weizenbaum, and the other serious critics of our technophilia. A key phrase, it seems to me, is Wiener’s almost offhand observation, above, that “these machines

9 44 Jefferson was then 44: Thomas Jefferson and Douglas L. Wilson. Jefferson Abroad. Modern Library ed. (

that is because a computer very quickly begins to behave somewhat in the way a programmer intends it to, programming is very seductive.” The mistake, Weizenbaum warned, was to think that easy programming of a machine was really a predictor of anything other than getting a machine to follow commands. It didn’t

xplain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the mor

Age is also the Dysinformation Age. What can we do? We need to rethink our priorities with the help of the passionate but flawed analyses of Wiener, Weizenbaum, and the other serious critics of our technophilia. A key phrase, it seems to me, is Wiener’s almost offhand observation, above, that “these machines