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Computer: Computer as Antibody:
"We have developed the ability to take energy out of the atom to blow ourselves; but no coordinating ability to prevent ourselves from blowing ourselves up. Apparently evolution has the intent that man would keep on. Therefore an antibody appeared and the antibody was the computer.
“The computer is taking over all the specialization because it can stay up all night, picking out the pink from the blue faster than you can, and under conditions of heat where you can’t possibly operate. It’s taking over all the specialization. It’s going to force man back into comprehensivity, where he was born, and meant to be. So all of us begin to be concerned with the whole and with computerization we are going to be able to get enough information about the whole.”
¶ Citations
- THIS IS YOUR GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb '68, p. 41.
