Comments on: Great Survey Response http://askhowie.com/2008/04/23/great-survey-response/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Rothwell http://askhowie.com/2008/04/23/great-survey-response/comment-page-1/#comment-176 David Rothwell Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:29:01 +0000 http://askhowie.com/2008/04/23/great-survey-response/#comment-176 Hi Howie, you may not remember me but we've met a couple of times at Perry's seminar and last year's System. I correspond a bit with Bryan. Your article puts me in mind of the Turing test - how to discover whether you're conversing with a machine or a human (since you're not face-to-face). Following this theme there's a truly excellent book called "The Adolescence of P-1" by Thomas J Ryan (sadly his only work to my knowledge and out of print). It's SF which may not be to your taste but it's a great read and even though about ancient computers still relevant in terms of human questions (and where a machine becomes human through programming). Also, synchronicity and the ghost in the machine are at work here as i just signed up Today for your Winner Alert service. See you in Chicago? Hi Howie, you may not remember me but we’ve met a couple of times at Perry’s seminar and last year’s System. I correspond a bit with Bryan.

Your article puts me in mind of the Turing test – how to discover whether you’re conversing with a machine or a human (since you’re not face-to-face).

Following this theme there’s a truly excellent book called “The Adolescence of P-1″ by Thomas J Ryan (sadly his only work to my knowledge and out of print). It’s SF which may not be to your taste but it’s a great read and even though about ancient computers still relevant in terms of human questions (and where a machine becomes human through programming).

Also, synchronicity and the ghost in the machine are at work here as i just signed up Today for your Winner Alert service.

See you in Chicago?

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