¶ Computer Asks an Original Question
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There is a trending of the computer development which is a swiftly accelerating phase of human ecology evolution. In order to understand the logistical evolution of human artifacts and their sumtotal feedback transforming effects on human ecology’s total environmental transition and the letter’s reciprocal modification of man’s evolutionary patterning in Universe, you have to recognize that the computer can choose to do only what man can choose to do within the limits of variables of mathematical strategy. There are two strategically fundamental and diametrically opposite operations of the mathematics. One is differentiating out, and the other is integrating. Differentiation and integration-- those are really the two great diametric limit functions. Those who are expert in the development of the computer point out that it is very clear that the computer is already making man obsolete as a differentiator, that is as a ‘specialist.’ The computer and its very sensitive controlling subsidiary organisms which we call automation can very clearly pick out the green from the red and pick it out very much faster than the human can pick it out. It can do it all night long at 2000 degrees heat, where the human can’t operate at all. So the machine as computer-- as automation-- is about to make man extinct as a specialist.
