Because Lick had come to computing from psychology, Fano explains—instead of through mathematics and engineering, like almost everyone else—he instinctively saw computers in relation to the workings of the human brain, rather than as an exercise in pure technology. And that, in turn, was why he was so quick to embrace computers as a way of enhancing human creativity and enriching human life. "It was a vision of man-machine interaction that was often unhampered by practical realities,"
the vision of man-machine interaction
