I'm saddened by this. More than saddened as I've known a few people who have had this.
Terry Jones has dementia
Python wordsmith Terry Jones has announced he has been afflicted with primary progressive aphasia, a variant of frontotemporal dementia that destroys the brain's ability to handle speech and vocabulary. Jones directed what was arguably Monty Python's finest film, Life of Brian, as well as The Meaning of Life, and co-directed …
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Sunday 25th September 2016 11:53 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Re: IT angle?
The Pythons thought about AI in the late 1960ies with their New Brain From Curry's sketch. That's IT-angle enough for me. The pint is for Terry J.; he always liked real ale.
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Saturday 24th September 2016 19:09 GMT Brian Miller
Medical applications of small computers
This is the thing that I always thought that IoT should really do: take care of people in states like this. Something small to help someone along in the day, etc.
Disorders of the brain are one of things that are so unnerving. Your brain itself goes into a state of decay, and there's nothing to be done for it.