
Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett
Human Centered
What's the Difference Between Engineers and Philosophers?
I was a math major as an undergraduate and you were a philosophy major. The idea of being an engineer would never have occurred to any of us. I might not have been a very good one but I always loved how things work, taking things apart and putting them back together. John McCarthy took an old IBM Selectric golf ball typewriter and wrote software to turn it into a printer. So did John Holland. While he was at CASBAS, now this is the dawn of word processing and the internet,. We all had darponette names and we had email withdarponette. In 1979. Absolutely.
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