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Revering both cats and the work of Muriel Spark (there are many parallels…), and when I saw its cover, I couldn’t pass up on James Bailey’s new biography of the writer, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.
Great to visit the Portobello Bookshop today, too, maybe my favourite independent bookshop within easy reach of home.
#MurielSpark #LikeACatLovesABird #TheNineLivesOfMurielSpark #JamesBailey #PortobelloBookshop #Biography #ScottishWriters #Books #Bookstodon #AlwaysJudgeABookByTheCover @bookstodon
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The reason today's electronic computers seem benign is that the true electronic revolution has not happened yet. Our current phase of computerization is still akin to the stage of history when muscle tasks were moving from humans to animals. The tasks being reassigned from individual human minds to electronic circuits still retain all their old human structure and scale.
-- James Bailey (After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence) -
The reason today's electronic computers seem benign is that the true electronic revolution has not happened yet. Our current phase of computerization is still akin to the stage of history when muscle tasks were moving from humans to animals. The tasks being reassigned from individual human minds to electronic circuits still retain all their old human structure and scale.
-- James Bailey (After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence)