https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/25/john-mccarthy/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/25/john-mccarthy/#comment-509240 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:21:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/25/john-mccarthy/#comment-509240 I must be getting old, virtually all the people I admire are either dead or dying.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/25/john-mccarthy/#comment-509239 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:38:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/25/john-mccarthy/#comment-509239 I’d like to add another important prediction by JMC, found in Dennett’s “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”, section 12.2 (p. 350f in my paperback): He noted that only few poets can make a living selling poetry books. As a solution he recommended to put the texts onto an “international network” (yet to be invented back then) where people can read them for a penny to be transferred to the poet’s account (using a method to be invented as well).

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