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WE ARE ALL TOO AWARE of the results of the mechanical revolution: the abolition of slavery; the vanishing of the family horse; the ability to breakfast in Paris and lunch in Washington; the traffic jams in every large city in the world; the presence of the bulldozer, which can remove all the trees from a residential site in a morning and which can regrade the site in accordance with our desires in an afternoon—to mention a few of these results. The electronic computer promises to be the instrumentality of the next stage in this revolution. Its capability as a mental assistant is largely unexplored as yet; most of us know too little about it to appreciate its potentialities.
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Morse, P.M. (1966). Design for a Brain. In: Steinhardt, J. (eds) Science and the Modern World. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0694-8_8
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