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

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing ….

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 mor….

My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, det….

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 to….

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it….

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the displa….

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

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnershi….

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