Fred & The Men On The Moon eBook

" The Late Fred, the reluctant hero of this story, is based on mymaster’s Degree Supervisor, Fred Welbourn.A most demanding teacher of my entire education, who taught meto ‘Think’ and write and to ably ‘pick the bones out of the slightestarguments, who I’m sure would have loved to tackle the intellectualand social challenges of present times; Space & AI internationalcompetitions, that have become the dominant issues of our time!But we’re long before his time! But that wouldn’t have bothered himbecause, besides his academic erudition, he was amazingly intuitive,with his wry skill for -reading his opponent’s ‘Body language, whichhe always conducted wearing his famous ‘Cambridge Don’sSmile"!Were he still with us, he would have shown the opposition that theconcept ‘artifi cial intelligence’ is something of a misnomer, perhapsmore appropriately ‘supplementary information’, and certainly notanything like the idea of ‘intelligence’, that he would regard simplyas a human faculty.