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1998 : WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF? [1]

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Pamela McCorduck [5]
Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation
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Joseph Traub [6]
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University; coauthor, Complexity and Information
(McCorduck:) Writer; author of Machines Who Think; coauthor of The Futures Of Women. (Traub:) Computer scientist at Columbia; author of Complexity And Information (forthcoming).

"When posterity looks back on the 20th Century from the perspective of a hundred years, what will they see as our greatest successes and worst follies?"

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[4] https://stage.edge.org/responses/what-questions-are-you-asking-yourself
[5] https://stage.edge.org/memberbio/pamela_mccorduck
[6] https://stage.edge.org/memberbio/joseph_traub