Technologists have to act as responsible members of society, but they also have to cut themselves out of the loop of ruling the world.
--Tim Berners-Lee

Artificial intelligence

intelligence of computers

pioneered by

Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy
Herbert Simon, Allen Newell
Alan Turing

related to cybernetics; nanotechnology promises advances

written about in

Society of Mind
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Godel Escher Bach

projects include

Cyc
GAC
SHRDLU