FRED & THE MEN ON THE MOON

“ The Late Fred, the reluctant hero of this story, is based on my

master’s Degree Supervisor, Fred Welbourn.

A most demanding teacher of my entire education, who taught me

to ‘Think’ and write and to ably ‘pick the bones out of the slightest

arguments, who I’m sure would have loved to tackle the intellectual

and social challenges of present times; Space & AI international

competitions, that have become the dominant issues of our time!

But we’re long before his time! But that wouldn’t have bothered him

because, besides his academic erudition, he was amazingly intuitive,

with his wry skill for -reading his opponent’s ‘Body language, which

he always conducted wearing his famous ‘Cambridge Don’sSmile”!

Were he still with us, he would have shown the opposition that the

concept ‘artifi cial intelligence’ is something of a misnomer, perhaps

more appropriately ‘supplementary information’, and certainly not

anything like the idea of ‘intelligence’, that he would regard simply

as a human faculty.