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Pamela McCorduck [5]
Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded Rationality, This Could Be Important; Co-author (with Edward Feigenbaum), The Fifth Generation
McCorduck's Law

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda — often persuasive, almost always wrong.

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