"The modern computer is more than a sophisticated indexing or adding machine, or a miniaturized library; it is the keystone for a new communications medium whose capacities and implications are only beginning to realize. In the foreseeable future, computer systems will be tied together by television, satellites, and lasers, and we will move large quantities of information over vast distances in imperceptible units of time."
"The National Data Center and Personal Privacy",Authur R. Miller, The Atlantic, 1967, courtesy of Modern Mechanix
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