An Unclear View of the Future
AN UNCLEAR VIEW OF THE FUTURE
The early computer pioneers may have been dedicated to their work, but perhaps they had little idea how their inventions would revolutionize the worlds of business and communication. In 1947 Harvard engineer Howard H. Aiken, who is credited with producing two of the first electronic computing machines in the mid-1940s, was quoted as saying he believed that "the computing needs of the entire United States"could be met with no more than "six electronic digital computers."
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