¶ Integration & Differentiation
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Integration & Differentiation:
“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, where the human can’t operate at all. So the machine as computer-- as automation-- is about to make man extinct as a specialist.”
¶ Citations
- Computer (A), 10 Dec’64
