The LifeofJohnSterlingisabiography of the ScottishauthorJohn Sterling, but it is most often read as a work of Carlyle, rather than from an interest in the life of Sterling.
In the 1960s, while Don Draper was making a fortune at Sterling Cooper, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nils Nilsson and other visionaries of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford and MIT were imagining a world where computers could think faster and better than people.