Gregory Benford
Communications of the ACM, vol. 54, no. 3, pp.112,111
ISBN 0001-0782
March 2011
I envisioned and wrote the first computer virus in 1969 but failed to see that viruses would become widespread. Technologies don't always evolve as we'd like. I learned this then but failed to catch the train I knew, even then, would soon leave the station.