Re: incorporating new ideas

On Mon, 25 May 2009 08:52:21 -0700, David Friedman
<ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <6gsk15t2nb0sqru408tlhlcf5hv3buqdpc@xxxxxxx>,
Eric Ammadon <email_addr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After all, we wouldn't have learned so much about computers if we
didn't suck at understanding people, instead we'd have spent our time
doing people things instead of talking to machines.

How many successful novelists are computer people? Vinge is the one that
occurs to me, but I expect there are others.

None before around the 1950s/1960s I think. :-)

Although, the all-time 2nd best selling book in the West was written by
a guy called Euclid, who has the earliest algorithm I know of named
after him. (Euclid's algorithm.) But I don't think he wrote any novels:
his best-seller was non-fiction.

The best seller was a mix of myth, history, several short biographies,
essays, song lyrics and speculative fiction.

Jonathan

--
"If common sense were a reliable guide, we wouldn't need
science in the first place." Amanda Gefter, New Scientist.
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