Monday, February 7, 2011
Pages 35-37
Once in graduate school Fischer became very interested in computers and was determined to create a computer that could think like a human being. He began taking psychology classes to help him with both developing a computer as well as raising a child. However, Fischer's dedication to his quest for artificial-intelligence quickly got in the way of his marriage. Within a year of his son, Fischer Sheffey Black III being born Fischer and Tinna were divorced. Tinna married someone else, relocated, and even changed the child's name since Fischer gave up all his parental rights. Meanwhile at Harvard, faculty forced him to focus his brilliance and produce some results.
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A for Jack.
ReplyDeleteDoes this sound like someone you'd want to know? He sounds compulsive without being obsessive, if that's possible.
And think about the wife and baby - she changed its name! And, 45 years after the fact, and 35 years after Black's death, you can't find that kid on the internet (at least I couldn't with many seconds of searching).
In micro, we'd call those opportunity costs.