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The Gods of Logic

Before and after artificial intelligence

From “What Computers Can’t Do,” which appeared in the August 1965 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is…

Aaron Swartz, RIP

by Scott Horton,

A leading cyberactivist commits suicide at twenty-six. Was he hounded to death by federal prosecutors?

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by Peter Turnley,

The sciences

by Wayne Biddle,

A patent on knowledge

Letter from MIT

by Spencer Klaw,

Education by hand

by Horace Elisha Scudder,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Gods of Logic

A Jangling Noise of Words

Aaron Swartz, RIP

Untitled

The sciences

Letter from MIT

Education by hand

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The Gods of Logic

A Jangling Noise of Words

Aaron Swartz, RIP

Untitled

The sciences

Letter from MIT

Education by hand

February 1879

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