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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 08:12:09 PM

Title: Aristotle and the computer
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2017, 08:12:09 PM

Jolly little article



https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/

Title: Re: Aristotle and the computer
Post by: SusanDoris on March 22, 2017, 07:07:19 AM

very interesting. I  listened to every word for three-quarters of it then I did do a bit of skipping, but all very interesting.  thank you for posting link.

Title: Re: Aristotle and the computer
Post by: Udayana on March 22, 2017, 09:42:10 AM

Not a bad run through the history of computing, slightly marred by silly tag lines such as "Aristotle created the computer" , "invented logic" and so on,