The footer on the bottom of the article: "Send comments to mccarthy@stanford.edu. I sometimes make changes suggested in them. - John McCarthy". "The number of

The footer on the bottom of the article: "Send comments to mccarthy@stanford.edu. I sometimes make changes suggested in them. - John McCarthy". "The number of hits on this page since 2004 Dec 18." From the date listed on the top-level page "WHAT FUTURES SHALL WE MAKE?" it appears that this was written after 1998. [1] Or perhaps digitized after that date, but the footer on the article does list 2004 on the hit counter. I agree with your observations, though. Both the arguments presented and supporting data seem to be quite dated. [1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/index.html http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/index.html