Professor Joseph Weizenbaum is well-known, both as a teacher
of computer science and as an activist for scientific and
educational responsibility. He designed the first computerized
banking system before coming to MIT in the 1960s. He invented
ELIZA, the first "psychiatric" program, and was moved by the
reaction to it to write the best-selling Computer Power and
Human Reason.
Q: What, if anything, do you think should be the role of the
computer in education?
A:I'll tell you my reaction to that question without answering it
directly. There's a Russian joke that goes something like this:
Two people are standing in a very large breadline in Moscow, and
they're talking about the fact that the harvest failed once more
and that's why there's a shortage of bread, and one of them says
to the other, "You know, it's all the fault of the Jews and the
bicyclists." The other one says, "Why the bicyclists?" and the
first one answers, "Why the Jews?"
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