Date: Friday, 24 August 1984 16:28 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #26 Reply-To: {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} To: {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} Miscellaneous Digest Volume 3 : Issue 26 Today's topics: Virtual Memory? Commercial message, ignore if desired Leary (from Info-COBOL) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Monday, 20 August 1984 22:52 mst From: Kevin P. Fleming Subject: Virtual Memory? 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This offer is not available through stores and is void where prohibited by law. ------------------------------ Date: Friday, 24 August 1984 10:03 mst From: Scott Cyphers Subject: Leary From the Boston Globe, August 24, 1984 *********************************************************************** Psychologist Timothy Leary, pushing software as the way to turn on to enriched life experiences, says that the future lies in understanding interactions between computer programs and the brain. Using familiar phrases dating to the '60s, when he was sacked from Harvard for urging youth to explore "inner space" with psychedelic drugs, Leary told a large group of therapists meeting at Curry College in Milton that he is now developing "humanist software" to enable individuals "to interact with their own beings." He spoke to the annual meeting of the Assn. for Humanistic Psychology Wednesday. In an interview later, Leary said he feels that "psychoactive software will expand conciousness, get you high and even blow your mind. You do it with electronic beeps. Besides all that, it's legal." Leary said he plans to continue his efforts to increase human intelligence by selling interactive software of his own design through a company called "Futique" in Hollywood, where he now lives. Futique, coined as a counterpoint to the word antique, so far remains a company without a product to market and without a telephone number and Leary has yet to make any deals with software companies, according to other sources. Leary said he plans to rewrite science textbooks for interactive software. He said he is also rewriting parts of "Huckleberry Finn" to allow the reader to change events in the story to personal taste from a range of programmed options. ... *********************************************************************** Surely Leary is talking about Cobol here. It is thought by some that the psychoactive affects come from the Cobol programs requiring more than the capacity of the normal human mind for storage, resulting in expanded conciousness (the human equivalent of virtual memory and timesharing). ------------------------------ End of Miscellaneous Digest ***************************