Richard Dawkins on the first Macintosh

Richard Dawkins on the first Macintosh

Nice piece by the author of The Selfish Gene. “The first Mac I saw may have been one of the first in Britain, for it was at the house of my colleague WD Hamilton, shortly after he arrived from Michigan in 1984, and he may well have shipped it over. Bill showed it to his dinner guests one evening, and it stunned us. I immediately echoed Huxley’s remark on closing The Origin of Species: ‘How extremely stupid not to have thought of that’…”