Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. First conference on Artificial Life: “The Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems,” organized by Christopher Langton, and featuring, among others, Richard Dawkins. Los Alamos, which saw the first demonstration of a new type of mass-death technology, is also witnessing the birth of a new type of life. Of the two responsibilities, Langton concludes, it is difficult to determine which is the more burdensome for humanity.
