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an observation enshrined as Moore’s Law.) Von Neumann

doubling in power or sensitivity over some interval of time. (For

partly inspired by conversations with Wiener

halted by obstacles and overcome by innovation. Many

of doing any work a man can do.” Such predictions turned out to be

a significant example of technological overestimation was

he anticipates chess-playing computers and

and the vacuum-tube technology of the digital computers he

Wiener (along with pretty much everyone else in 1950)

prosthetic limbs that incorporate neural

receiving information about pressure and position from the limb and

look at a humbler but potentially useful innovation that he

and of artificial intelligence itself. But

it seems prosaic to emphasize the centrality of

a picture that is by and large universally accepted today.

where they did their pioneering work on artificial neural networks.

and was responsible for bringing Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts to

thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing

he developed techniques for aiming antiaircraft

fast. The current world of human beings and