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Intellectual Infidelity

January 21st, 2009

I’m a long-time reader of New Scientist (I even wrote a few articles for them back in the 1980s and early 1990s), but having browed BBC’s new Knowledge Magazine, I’m seriously tempted to stray…  But it makes me wonder yet again: where are the Carl Sagans and David Suzukis of computing?  Lots of people write about what’s going on in our industry, but there don’t seem to be any rock-star popularizers for the science.  (Go ahead, make me an offer…)

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  1. Ben Finney
    January 21st, 2009 at 16:43 | #1
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    Mark Shuttleworth. He’s rich (people love a millionaire), average-to-good looking, talks quite a bit about free software and acts on it, and his personal drive seems inextricably linked with Ubuntu’s fame.

  2. Thomas Guest
    January 22nd, 2009 at 05:39 | #2
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    You’ve reminded me of the Douglas Hofstadter columns I used to read in Scientific American back in the 1980s. I recall some beautiful, accessible Lisp code. Godel, Escher, Bach also covers computing.

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