About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it.… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation,… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
