Who's Alan Peart?

I'm a 35-year-old web developer and IT consultant, born in Ireland but currently living in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire.

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

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I've been working from home for close to a year now and it's interesting to see how my attitude to it has changed. After 10 years of working in various different types of office, from the small-startup-in-condemned-warehouse variety to the cctv-system-recording-your-cubicle-time evil corporation type, and after years of school, I had developed a deeply ingrained attitude that work is not fun. Fun is something you have outside of work, and therefore during your working life you fantasize constantly about getting away from it. Weekends of stress release, holidays of escape, early retirement through sensible financial planning, writing a bestseller.