>>>>>>I have been reading the latest John Lescrourt book, in which one of the key elements is a murder trial. An expert witness hired by the defense is speaking to the point that the testimony of eyewitnesses is not necessarily reliable. At the conclusion of his testimony a 3 minute video is played, which is in fact an actual video that has been viewed on YouTube 8.5 million times. Many of you have probably seen it already. Still pretty interesting.
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>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
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>>>>>Didn't get it. I counted fifteen and could describe what the gorilla did....
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>>>>Of course, the correct answer to the question, "Did you see the gorilla?" is "No": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Fair_Witness
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>>>OK. I saw something that looked a bit like a gorilla :-}
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>>Apparently "Stranger in a Strange Land" was published in 1961, at the dawn of the computer age.
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>Remember reading that when it came out but it hasn't really stick in my mind. Might be interesting to re-read from a current perspective...
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>>One can consider the "Fair Witness" concept as an early exploration of the literalism that is critically important to software development and computer programming to this day.
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>Drifting into toga territory now.....

"toga territory" - I like that - I'm going to steal it ;)

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