Computers came into my (our) life about 1980 approximately though I was familiar with them from early sixties as I laughed at the article I read (1964) entitled, "Computers in Medicine" (now I laugh at myself, on my "ignorance".)
Stephen Hawking, a name I was familiar with from news etc. but read his life history and watched the movie made on his life " The Theory of Everything" was a most remarkable human being, a Physicist (the only non-Jew of that caliber (I mean, Einstein, Witten, Gross and the like ) who was known as atheist. He lived with ALS for 48 years (almost 50), diagnosed 1963 and died 2018 Symptoms started probably from 1960. As a neurologist I had seen most patients dying in a couple of years but some would survive more even up to 6-7 yrs. Longest survivor I had seen was 26 years after diagnosis was made So I was familiar with rare "slowly progressive form" of MND or ALS. (Motor neuron disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)This is the longest life I believe I have known of a patient of ALS
Anyway his view, I was intrigued to learn from wicki life history about Computer viruses:
"Computer Viruses, in today's world should be considered a new form of life. . . . . , may be it says something about the human race, that the only form of life WE have created so far is purely DESTRUCTIVE.."
"We" means us human beings
Today we have similar fear being expressed from AI
10/6/23
Yesterday I watched his life story a nice and amazing documentry
He decided to marry second time after 25 yrs of a successful marriage. Amazing sexlife inspite of generalized wasting of mucles with inability to move any parts of body except some lips and tongue One episode of pneumonia that almost killed him, made him unable to swallow or produce any sound for 2-3 yrs and made gradual recovery to his previous level Had his own wheelchair and other specially made instruments to produce his speech He had written a book a best sellar that helped out his expenses of his living
A most remarkable brain indeed a genius recognized the world over about his dicoveries of evidence or radiation in black hole and other things I did not understand related to time and space starting from "Big Bang"
Father of three sons and a daughter
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