A Billion Years a Week
John Ziman, 19 September 1985
Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age
by David Bolter and A.J. Ayer.
Duckworth, 264 pp., £12.95, October 1984,0 7156 1917 9 Show More
by David Bolter and A.J. Ayer.
Duckworth, 264 pp., £12.95, October 1984,
“... machine at the other end of a telex line could be distinguished from a human reasoner. Bolter is somewhat scornful of the AI movement. He sees it as yet another instance of the age-old project of ‘making a human being by other than the ordinary reproductive means’, by which man seeks to ‘raise himself above the status that nature seems to ... ”