> The future, we are told, will belong to those familiar with the computer. What a joke this would be if only it didn't victimize so many innocent bystanders.

> The future, we are told, will belong to those familiar with the computer. What a joke this would be if only it didn't victimize so many innocent bystanders. prescient. this is one if the best articles i have read in years. the 1970s were a liminal place, between great eras. montreal thrived. there are few people this smart today who talk about the future with such accuracy because its hard to describe it using essential first principles- like how languages are just made of strings, which are lists, which are vectors, which are tables, which are matrices. its the simplest thing in the world if you think about it...