scifi:

there is a lot of guff in the talk of these days about "thinking machines" ... on the fringe of the activities, a few still talk about giant electronic brains. when, however, one of these, who has written a book on the subject, asked a seasoned applied mathematician, "dr. blake, do you believe that electronic computers think?" he was misunderstood to say "stink". the harried mathematician replied, "now that you put the words into my mouth, i rather think that they do." | how to build a thinking machine, jj coupling, aka john robinson pierce, 1950

wondering: as easy as "app" falls out of manager's mouth wondering if we could feed them with alg for algorithm, too. at least for german speaking managers one could sell it under "dual meaning" or would algo help?

as history is easily forgotten and, the wheel gets re-invented, and even journalists are afraid to use the word algorithm, someone should help them by promoting alg, just another 3letters acronym easy to remember.

ReStore: social science repository, may it be of help.