"It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a 'thinking center' that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval. The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services. In such a system, the speed of the computers would be balanced, and the cost of the gigantic memories and the sophisticated programs would be divided by the number of users."
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Cited in: Jacques Berleur, Markku I. Nurminen, John Impagliazzo (2006) Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? p. 436.
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J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990) was an American computer scientist. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing, and its application to all manner of activities, which he did much to initiate.
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