Seesee them two go up and down, Doctor! Just the way the feller hit em. Rudy acted as though the antique instrument were the newest of all wonders, and he excitedly pointed out identifiable musical patterns in the bobbing keystrills, spectacular runs up the keyboard, and the slow methodical rise and fall of keys in the bass. I hope Im not around long enough to see that final step. ∿irst the muscle work, then the routine work, then, maybe, the real brainwork. Some of the big computers like EPICAC do that all right, in specialized fields. That would be the third revolution, I guessmachines that devaluate human thinking. A third one, eh? In a way, I guess the third ones been going on for some time, if you mean thinking machines. To the people who were going to be replaced by machines, maybe. The first and second ones must have been sort of inconceivable at the time. ∽o you suppose therell be a Third Industrial Revolution? It was a vote of confidence from the past, he thoughtwhere the past admitted how humble and shoddy it had been, where one could look from the old to the new and see that mankind really had come a long way. It was the original machine shop set up by Edison in I886, the same year in which he opened another in Schenectady, and visiting it took the edge off Pauls periods of depression. This was the climax, or close to it, of generations of Bud Calhouns, with almost all of American industry integrated into one stupendous Rube Goldberg machine. Buds mentality was one that had been remarked upon as being peculiarly American since the nation had been bornthe restless, erratic insight and imagination of a gadgeteer.
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