Von Neumann failed to foresee computers becoming small, cheap, and ubiquitous (for household income tax calculations, children's homework, computer games), and particularly failed to foresee computer games as dominant feature of 21st century life creating indelible human-computer addiction from childhood.

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Freeman Dyson

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he failed utterly to foresee the final domestication of computers as toys for three-year-olds

Source

Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and SocietyBoston University
Created: 8/10/2026, 4:18:25 PM

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