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“We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.”

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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…

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A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do…

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One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation,…

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About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I…

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