Computers, Communications, and the Public InterestMartin Greenberger |
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... Human beings , like contemporary computers , are essentially serial devices . They can attend to only one thing at a time . This is just another way of saying that attention is scarce . Even the modern time - shar- ing systems which ...
... Human beings , like contemporary computers , are essentially serial devices . They can attend to only one thing at a time . This is just another way of saying that attention is scarce . Even the modern time - shar- ing systems which ...
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... human thinking , or the scarcity of human attention . The world outside is itself the greatest storehouse of knowledge . Human reason , drawing upon the pattern and redundancy of nature , can predict some of the consequences of human ...
... human thinking , or the scarcity of human attention . The world outside is itself the greatest storehouse of knowledge . Human reason , drawing upon the pattern and redundancy of nature , can predict some of the consequences of human ...
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... human germ plasm , much like our present principle of the inviolability of human life . Society at times will elect to violate the principle . There may come a time , for example , when we know how safely to introduce into congenital ...
... human germ plasm , much like our present principle of the inviolability of human life . Society at times will elect to violate the principle . There may come a time , for example , when we know how safely to introduce into congenital ...
Contents
LARGE TIMESHARING NETWORKS | 1 |
DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS FOR | 37 |
COMPUNICATIONS IN THE NATIONAL | 72 |
Copyright | |
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