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Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)
- dang 7y agoShort discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341074 Even shorter from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859854 Related though frivolous from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438970
- ulises314 7y agoIs kinda frightening that this doesn't get any more discussion here, because it means that the people that get the news here (developers, it staff or at least technical savvy users) aren't really concerned about the points he raises, even though they are very important in today's world.
- dang 7y agoI'm not sure that follows. The dominant factor in what gets attention here is randomness, and 3 or 4 posts in 10 years is not a significant number. There may also be something else about the articles that make them fall short of widely interesting.
- pcblues 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso... My favourite cautionary tale of the programming industry. His concerns in 1976 of programmers spiralling into ever deepening efforts to solve their self-made problems guides my work today.