In 1968 Beer was working at IPC as was, and via cronyism (he had a team of bright young men including the brother of a girlfriend) I was paid to translate an abstruse French paper which introduced me to phenomenology. I think I knew what it was then, sure as hell don't now.
There were other British cybernetics bods around at the time, including my old Prof Peter Fellgett, but he didn't leave such an impression on British industry.
The "insinuate a girl" may refer also to Allende's well-known womanizing tendencies. Which resulted in a bizarre situation where and he (as a senator) and Raul Rettig (another senator, who would subsequently write the famous 1991 "Rettig report" on the crimes of the Pinochet regime) got into an honest-to-God pistol duel sometimes in the 1950's due to their mistaken belief that they were both pursuing an affair with the same woman. The newspapers across the political spectrum mostly though dueling in the modern age was pretty silly, and both senators had to hide from the police in order to carry out the duel. It later turned out they were actually interested in two different women and the whole duel had been a misunderstanding.
In 1968 Beer was working at IPC as was, and via cronyism (he had a team of bright young men including the brother of a girlfriend) I was paid to translate an abstruse French paper which introduced me to phenomenology. I think I knew what it was then, sure as hell don't now.
There were other British cybernetics bods around at the time, including my old Prof Peter Fellgett, but he didn't leave such an impression on British industry.
The "insinuate a girl" may refer also to Allende's well-known womanizing tendencies. Which resulted in a bizarre situation where and he (as a senator) and Raul Rettig (another senator, who would subsequently write the famous 1991 "Rettig report" on the crimes of the Pinochet regime) got into an honest-to-God pistol duel sometimes in the 1950's due to their mistaken belief that they were both pursuing an affair with the same woman. The newspapers across the political spectrum mostly though dueling in the modern age was pretty silly, and both senators had to hide from the police in order to carry out the duel. It later turned out they were actually interested in two different women and the whole duel had been a misunderstanding.