2009-03-19

Ways we may not yet suspect

We've read an awful lot about the dehumanizing influence of the computer - but that theory is being demolished. While the elder generation built the computer, it's the younger generation who will discover ways to use such machines for art as well as science - and in ways we may not yet suspect.

- Neil Shapiro skriver om Rich Garriott/Lord British, Popular Mechanics januari 1982

Shapiro inleder artikeln med att berätta om det 19-åriga underbarnet; detta vore inte faktoid-bloggen om jag inte påpekade att 61:an Richard Garriott fyllde 20 år 1981. Bara så ni vet vad som räknas som "the younger generation".

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