nasa@ms.uky.edu (Eric T. Freeman) (04/07/88)
Check out the new Amiga World, May '88 pages 12-13. Timothy Leary is making a game out of William Gibson's Neuromancer. Would anyone have a schedule of Dr. Leary's lectures? Eric Freeman nasa@g.ms.uky.edu
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (04/08/88)
Leary has been going around saying "Tune in, turn on, and boot up". But he hasn't shipped the software yet. Probably bombed his mind back in the 60s and can't program well enough.
dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos) (04/08/88)
In article <17391@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: > > Leary has been going around saying "Tune in, turn on, and boot up". >But he hasn't shipped the software yet. Probably bombed his mind back in >the 60s and can't program well enough. Nasty, nasty. Tiny Doctor Tim is in fine and cheery shape. Anyway, he doesn't write the programs himself. He designs the stuff and works with programmers. I know he's become a popular icon of 60's burnout, but it ain't so, Joe. I've played with his Mind Mirror, and though parts of it *are* silly, it's a good introduction to an interesting technique of psychological testing and rating that he developed years ago. If you've never seen Leary's techniques multiple-axis personality evaluation, there's also a good introduction in his _Changing My Mind, Among Others_ Any time someone has truly new ideas, I expect to find the diamonds embedded in horse-shit. It comes with the territory. (Read what Copernicus _really_ wrote about in his new theory of the solar system, for instance.) Leary's theory's of the mind are nicely elaborated in R.A.Wilson's _Prometheus Rising_ -- and they are *not* just a lot of burned-out New Age chin dribblings. If the Good Doctor reads this newsgroup, he can defend his own work from now on, but I thought I'd put in a good word. ______________________________________________________________________________ Gary L. Dryfoos ARPA/Internet: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu UUCP/Usenet: ...ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!dryfoo "So, you cannot resist, can you? No, no one can! When LeMott sings, they dance! Ha-ha-ha! They all dance!" ==============================================================================
hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) (04/09/88)
In article <17391@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
. Leary has been going around saying "Tune in, turn on, and boot up".
.But he hasn't shipped the software yet. Probably bombed his mind back in
.the 60s and can't program well enough.
Leary just comes up with the general ideas and writes the specs. He
contracts out the actual programming and development. I think Electronic
Arts, Inc. did his first program, which is out and selling.
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