Re:“Computers enable fantasies” – the continued relevance of...
by Radim on Friday January 27, 2023 @09:53AM
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Article so wordy it could use an AI summary, but this quote stands out:
> Writing of the enthusiastic embrace of a fully computerized world, Weizenbaum grumbled, “These people see the technical apparatus underlying Orwell’s 1984 and, like children on seeing the beach, they run for it”
> a point to which Weizenbaum added “I wish it were their private excursion, but they demand that we all come along.”
> Writing of the enthusiastic embrace of a fully computerized world, Weizenbaum grumbled, “These people see the technical apparatus underlying Orwell’s 1984 and, like children on seeing the beach, they run for it”
> a point to which Weizenbaum added “I wish it were their private excursion, but they demand that we all come along.”