New Yorker cartoon by David Langdon. (click to expand) I can’t find a date for this, but it was probably sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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New Yorker cartoon by David Langdon. (click to expand) I can’t find a date for this, but it was probably sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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There was a Twilight Zone episode on this very subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s
I liked the one that came out in 1959 with the computer printing out a message that read “Cogito ergo sum.”
This was a good movie
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/desk_set/?nopopup=true
Modern treatment of a surprisingly perpetually arising concerns
Plus you can’t beat Hepburn and Tracy.