For Dreyfus, it should I think be What Computers STILL Can't Do (1992 I think). Ask me, as a lurker/observer, the "fallacy of the first step" remains exceedingly operative. Pretty amazing too that HD first called it in the Nixon era. JDF James Dougal Fleming<https://libberleeber.com><http://www.sfu.ca/english/faculty-staff/profiles/j-d--fleming.Jameshtml> Professor, Department of English Simon Fraser University Burnaby/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. So spake the fervent Angel, but his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash -- Paradise Lost ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP@si.edu> Sent: March 17, 2022 12:27 PM To: Lori Emerson; Janet Abbate Cc: members@SIGCIS.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators There were lots of people who made predictions about the future (e.g. Ed Berkeley's "Giant Brains"), but your question is about works that computer people acted to bring into being. That is a more restricted set. Not sure of Berkely had that influence on computer engineers and scientists. Alan Kay's description of a "Dynabook"? John Sculley's video about a personal assistant? (Not clear if the folks at Apple or anywhere else took his video as marching orders or not). Maybe a negative writing: Dreyfus's "What Computers Can't Do." As much as it was disparaged, AI researchers did come around to take a different tack on AI, with great success. Whether they were persuaded by Dreyfus's arguments or not I am not sure. Paul Ceruzzi ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Lori Emerson <lori.emerson@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:29 PM To: Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> Cc: members@SIGCIS.org <members@sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators External Email - Exercise Caution Hi Evan and all, I would add George Orwell on the "World Brain" as well as Paul Otlett's Mundaneum - not explicitly computers but definitely imagining a networked, world wide information sharing system. yrs, Lori On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:25 PM Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu<mailto:abbate@vt.edu>> wrote: Hi Evan, David Ferro and Eric Swedin’s anthology, "Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains" (McFarland & Company, 2011) is a series of essays about science fiction that affected real-life computing. I don’t recall how much coverage there was of pre-1965 SF. I used to teach Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” (1956), which is one of his most widely read, but I don’t know if it influenced actual computing. Janet Dr. Janet Abbate Professor, Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program liberalarts.vt.edu/sts<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fliberalarts.vt.edu%2Fsts&data=04%7C01%7Cceruzzip%40si.edu%7C7a909c28ad8f40a6279a08da0844229f%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637831386134020572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=A530tI2bk5tBrO7IvWFd1W8mTZcuwKhKDyo1RQDPEwE%3D&reserved=0> www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechSTS<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVirginiaTechSTS&data=04%7C01%7Cceruzzip%40si.edu%7C7a909c28ad8f40a6279a08da0844229f%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637831386134020572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=S5eBChUSc1e5ZQ4wRZFy7GE0gTh4ZqnPFBTaACZSoXk%3D&reserved=0> https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/stsconnect/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fvt.edu%2Fstsconnect%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cceruzzip%40si.edu%7C7a909c28ad8f40a6279a08da0844229f%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C0%7C637831386134020572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zW%2B4W02YlvIqt%2F2Vxp0jjJVt7Cz8N2%2FHCRP6UvvB%2BQQ%3D&reserved=0>
On Mar 17, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu>> wrote:
Good suggestion! Science fiction often tells us about the present, sometimes more than the future.
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-------- Original message -------- From: Adam Hyland <achyland@uw.edu<mailto:achyland@uw.edu>> Date: 3/17/22 11:15 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Jean Graham <jean.graham@stonybrook.edu<mailto:jean.graham@stonybrook.edu>> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu>>, "members@SIGCIS.org" <members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@sigcis.org>> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators
I wouldn't know how to begin writing about this, but Asimov comes immediately to mind for pre 1965.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 8:04 AM Jean Graham <jean.graham@stonybrook.edu<mailto:jean.graham@stonybrook.edu>> wrote: Definitely the people who wrote hacker zines and bulletin boards, not least because they combined a political point of view with their technical writing
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu>> wrote: I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.
Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
• Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.) • Are there existing papers on this subject?
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