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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Pamela McCorduck

Pamela Ann McCorduck was a British-born American author of books about the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. She also wrote three novels. She contributed to Omni, The New York Times, Daedalus, and the Michigan Quarterly Review, and was a contributing editor of Wired. She was a former vice president of the PEN American Center. She was married to computer scientist and academic Joseph F. Traub.

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong. — © Pamela McCorduck
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
AI is a bridge between art and science.
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.
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