This is gold:<p><i>Appropriate to today, Gerard, The space futurist, asked John and Freeman about what computers will mean to us in the next 50 years. Freeman said "everyone would have one or more to do many tasks so that humans could spend time doing more important things".</i><p><i>John paused for about a minute and said "Freeman that is ridiculous, computers will be used to calculate better chances to date the pretty girl next door that does not notice you".</i>
I resented a lot of my lecturers at uni for nakedly scorning their roles as teachers in favor of their research. What is the point of me paying the (rapidly increasing) university fees if the people I am paying to teach me cannot bring themselves to deign to teach? It was, and is, insulting.