Spelunking CACM, Vol. 27 (1984): Robots, Elephants, Trusting Trust, and the Space Shuttle

Cartoons from three decades of Saturday Review on the topic of computers and robots were selected to present changing attitudes toward the technology. This review gives us the 1946 image at the top. Fascinating view of changing attitudes; the authors of the article assert that people began to take the topic more seriously as the machines became more real. (Of course it's no surprise that everyone…