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∂AIL Professor Joseph Weizenbaum↓Laboratory for Computer Science
↓545 Technology Square↓ Cambridge, Massachusetts∞

Dear Joe:

	Enclosed is a copy of the current version of my review.
No telling whether and where it might be published.  As you see,
I find menaces in your and Mumford's anti-technological views
that I think are doing much harm today.  The reference to Laplace
refers to the fact that you attribute to Leibniz (you spell it Leibnitz)
Laplace's statement about being able to predict from the positions
and velocities of the particles.  I don't have a reference on that,
but several people have confirmed my memory of the point.
Several people, including me, have listened to the tapes, and
no-one can find your quote.

	We are supposed to co-ordinate our comments on the
symposium papers.  So far I can't think of anything to say
about Negroponte's except that I agree that the computer is
peripheral to the visual arts, and it will neither help nor
hinder artists' interests returning to beauty.  I will grumble
that Noyce doesn't discuss possible developments of technology
that will permit small numbers of an integrated circuit to be
made economically.

	When you sent me a message, I was there, but you didn't
respond to my TALK command.  In general, I haven't figured out how
to send messages to unlogged in users.  I also tried to send a
message to Weizenbaum at mltx, but it hadn't heard of you under
that name.  Therefore the U.S. Mail wins for now, but can you
be reached on ARPANET and if so how?

.sgn