This is the time
I talked to an early computer guy this evening, just briefly. He started working in the computing field in 1955. He said that the computer science field is noticing that students seem to believe that there's nothing interesting left to do.
“But they're wrong,” he said. “It's never been more exciting than it is now. Things are moving so quickly.”
We also talked about Doug Engelbart and JCR Licklider and John Holland and Stuart Kauffman. Of ourse, he knew or knows all these people. I said it would be great to have a cultural history of the Santa Fe Institute. He said he knows of a novel being written about it. And he twinkled.