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The main purpose of this paper is to identify and to discuss new thrust lines for computer applications in petroleum engineering. A review of new directions and past accomplishments has indicated a rationale for computation in petroleum engineering, namely the systems analysis approach to problem solving.
“No, the future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.” Norbert Wiener God & Golem, Inc., 1964
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Preston, F.W. (1969). Systems Analysis╌The Next Phase for Computer Development in Petroleum Engineering. In: Merriam, D.F. (eds) Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8633-3_11
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