Thinking Machine

myth:thinking_machine

And at the centre of it all, the thinking machine: Turing's old question of whether a machine can truly think, the murderous HAL and the gentle android Data who longs to be human, the helpful voice and the feared supermind. The dream is no longer of a mechanical body but of a mind — a maker building, at last, not a servant's hands but a second kind of thought. — genre history