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Four decades is a long time. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris in 33 h. 1969 saw the first flight of the supersonic Concorde, which would carry 100 passengers over the Atlantic ten times faster at the edge of space. In 1970 the PDP-11 with 56 kilobytes memory was a popular business computer. In 2011 a pocket smartphone can have a million times more memory.
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Wowk, B. (2013). Health Care in the Year 2050. In: Crippen, D. (eds) ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3866-3_39
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