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Humans as Machines:
"and continual event of up to 70 years’ experience, or more, but to extend, by computation. and abstract fabrication, this experience with relative accuracy into all corners of the observed Universe. There is also a forecasting and tactical plotting department for the reduction of future possibilities and probabilities to generally successful specific choice.
“Finally, the whole structure is not only directly and simply mobile on land and in water, but indirectly and by exquisite precision of complexity, mobile in air, and, even in the intangible, mathematically sensed electrical ‘world,’ by means of the extensions of the primary integral mechanism to secondary mechanical compositions of its own devising, operable either by a direct mechanical hook-up with the device, or by indirect control through wired or wireless electrical impulses.”
¶ Citations
- I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May '70 (Not in Bantam version)
- YOU AND THE ATOM, pp.18-19, 1938
