In his article “Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man’s” (Time, February 20, 1978), Robert Jastrow claimed that by the 1990s computer intelligence would match that of the human brain. He quoted Dartmouth President Emeritus John Kemeny as saying we would “see the ultimate relation between man and computer as a symbiotic union of two living species, each completely dependent on the other for survival.” He called the computer a new form of life. Now, with the advantage of a historical perspective, do you think his predictions came to pass? Now that we have completed the decade of the 1990s, and have almost forty years of perspective, do you agree or disagree with the hypothesis that a computer could be a “new form of life”?