> Regarding no. 2, I feel like this is an interesting write up: > > https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340 > > It is about how naming a piece of software by its purpose, for example, > naming a program "intelligence" or "understand" or "think" or "comprehend" > causes people to project their understanding of the term onto the software, > including the programmers who wrote it, and then people believe reality > achieved the intent of the name rather than understanding clearly what the > software actually does. > > -- > Wilhelmina Randtke > Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems > Zach S. Henderson Library
Fun, and thank you for bringing this to our attention, moreover I believe it is imporant to note the date of the write up, 1976. --ELM <emor...@nd.edu>
