Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
Today computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers...
There's my education in computers right there this is the whole thing...