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As an example of the progress being made toward speeding up
computers, speakers at the recent Winter General Meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers described a coming
generation of “gigacycle” computers now on the drawing boards.
Present electronic machines operate at speeds in the megacycle
range, with 50 million cycles per second representing the most
advanced state of the art. Giga means billion; thus the new round of
computers will be some thousand times as fast as those now
operating.
Among the firms who plan such ultraspeed computers are RCA,
IBM, and Sperry Rand Corporation. To achieve such a great
increase in speed requires faster electronic switches. Transistors
have been improved, and more exotic devices such as tunnel
diodes, thin-film cryotrons, magnetic thin-films, parametrons, and
traveling-wave tubes are now coming into use. Much of the
development work is being supported by the U.S. Bureau of Ships.
Operational gigacycle computers are expected within two years!
Not just the brickmaker, but the architect too has been busy in the
job of optimizing the computer. The science of bionics and the study
of symbolic logic lead to better ways of doing things. The computer
itself comes up with improvements for its next generation, making
one part do the work of five, and eliminating the need for whole
sections of circuitry. Most computers have a fixed “clock”; that is,
they operate at a certain cyclic rate. Now appearing on the scene are
“asynchronous” computers which don’t stand around waiting when
one job is done, as their predecessors did.
One advanced notion is the “growing” of complex electronic
circuitry, in which a completed amplifier, or array of amplifiers, is
pulled from the crystal furnace much the way material for transistors
is now grown. Pooh-poohed at first as ridiculous, the notion has
been tried experimentally. Since a computer is basically a multiplicity
of simple units, the idea is not far off at that. It is conceivable that
crystal structure can be exploited to produce millions of molecules of
the proper material properly aligned for the desired electronic action.
With this shrinking come the benefits of small size, low power
consumption, low cost, and perhaps lower maintenance. The
computer will be cheap enough for applications not now
economically feasible. As this happens, what will the computer do for
us tomorrow?
A figure of 7 per cent is estimated for the amount of paperwork the
computer has taken over in the business world. Computer men are
eyeing a market some five times that amount. It does not take a vivid
imagination to decide that such a percentage is perhaps
conservative in the extreme. Computer sales themselves promise to
show a fourfold increase in the five-year period from 1960 to 1965,
and in the past predictions have been exceeded many times.
As population grows and business expands in physical size and
complexity, it is obvious that the computer and its data-processing
ability will be called upon more and more. There is another factor,
that of the internationalizing of business. Despite temporary setbacks
of war, protective tariffs, insular tendencies, and the like, in the long
run we will live in one integrated world shrunk by data links that can
get information from here to there and back again so fast it will be
like conversing with someone across the room. Already planners are
talking worldwide computerized systems.
As a mathematical whiz, the computer will relieve us of our money
worries. Coupled with the credit card, perhaps issued to us at birth, a
central computer will permit us to make purchases anywhere in the
world and to credit our account with wages and other income. If we
try to overdraw, it may even flash a warning light as fast as we put
the card in the slot! This project interests General Dynamics
researchers.
Of more importance than merely doing bookkeeping is the impact
the computer will have on the planning and running of businesses.
Although it is found in surveys that every person thinks computer
application reaches to the level just below his in the management
structure, pure logic should ultimately win out over man’s emotional
frailties at all levels. Operations research, implemented by the
computer, will make for more efficient businesses. Decisions will
increasingly be made not by vice-presidents but by digital
computers. At first we will have to gather the necessary information
for these electronic oracles, but in time they will take over this
function themselves.
Business is tied closely to education, and we have had a hint of
the place the computer will make for itself in education. The effect on
our motivation to learn of the little need for much learning will be
interesting. But then, is modern man a weaker being because he kills
a tiger with a high-powered rifle instead of club or bare hands—or
has no need to kill the tiger in the first place?
After having proved itself as a patent searcher, the computer is
sure to excel as inventor. It will invade the artistic field; computers
have already produced pleasing patterns of light. Music has felt the
effect of the computer; the trend will continue. Some day not far off
the hi-fi enthusiast will turn on his set and hear original compositions
one after the other, turned out by the computer in as regular or
random form as the hearer chooses to set the controls. Each
composition will bring the thrill of a new, fresh experience, unless we
choose to go back in the computer’s memory for the old music.
The computer will do far more in the home than dream up random
music for listening pleasure. The recorded telephone answerer will
give way to one that can speak for us, making appointments and so
on, and remembering to bring us up to date when we get home. A
small computer to plug in the wall may do other things like selecting
menus and making food purchases for next week, planning our
vacations, and helping the youngsters with their homework. It is even
suggested that the computer may provide us with child-guidance
help, plus psychological counsel for ourselves and medical
diagnoses for the entire family. The entire house might be
computerized, able to run itself without human help—even after
people are gone, as in the grimly prophetic story by Ray Bradbury in
which a neat self-controlled home is shown as the curtains part in
the morning. A mechanical sweeper runs about gathering up dust,
the air conditioning, lighting, and entertainment are automatic, all
oblivious to the fact that one side of the house is blackened from the
blast of a bomb.
Perhaps guarding against that eventuality is the most important
job the computer can do. Applications of computing power to
government have been given; and hints made of the sure path from
simple tasks like the census and income tax, Peace Corps work, and
so on to decision-making for the president. Just as logic is put to
work in optimizing business, it can be used to plan and run a taut
ship of state. At first such an electronic cabinet member will be given
all available information, which it will evaluate so as to be ready to
make suggestions on policy or emergency action. There is more
reason for it going beyond this status to become an active agent,
than there is against. Government has already become so complex
that perhaps a human brain, or a collection of them, cannot be
depended on to make the best possible decision. As
communications and transportation are speeded up, the problem is
compounded. Where once a commander-in-chief could weigh the
situation for days before he had to commit himself and his country to
a final choice, he may now be called upon to make such a far-
reaching decision in minutes—perhaps minutes from the time he is
awakened from a sound sleep. The strongest opposition to this
delegation of power is man’s own vanity. No machine can govern,
even if it can think, the politician exclaims. The soldier once felt the
same way; but operations research has given him more confidence
in the machine, and SAGE and NORAD prove to him that survival
depends on the speed and accuracy of the electronic computer.
Incurable romanticism is found even among our scientific
community. The National Bureau of Standards describes a computer
called ADAM, for Absolutely Divine Automatic Machine. But the
scientists also know that ADAM, or man, needs help. Rather than
consider the machine a tool, or even an extension of man’s mind,
some are now concerned with a kind of marriage of man and
machine in which each plays a significant part. Dr. Simon Ramo,
executive vice president of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., has
termed this mating of the minds “intellectronics.” The key to this
combination of man’s intellect and that of electronics is closer
rapport between the team members.
Department of Defense
Computer use in defense is typified in this BIRDIE system of the United States
Army.
The man-machine concept has grown into a science called, for the
present at least, “synnoetics,” a coinage from the Greek words syn
and noe meaning “perceive” and “together.” This science is defined
as the treating of the properties of composite systems, consisting of
configurations of persons, mechanisms, plant or animal organisms,
and automata, whose main attribute is that their ability to invent, to
create, and to reason—their mental power—is greater than the
mental power of their components.
We get a not-too-fanciful look into the future in a paper by Dr.
Louis Fein presented in the summer 1961 issue of American
Scientist, titled “Computer-related Sciences (Synnoetics) at a
University in 1975.” Dr. Fein is an authority on computers, as builder
of RAYDAC in 1952, and as founder and president of the Computer
Control Company. The paper ostensibly is being given to alumni
some years hence by the university president. Dr. Fein tells us that
students in the Department of Synnoetics study the formal
languages used in communication between the elements of a
synnoetic system, operations research, game theory, information
storage, organization and retrieval, and automatic programming.
One important study is that of error, called Hamartiology, from the
Greek word meaning “to miss the mark.”
The speaker tells us that this field was variously called
cybernetics, information science, and finally computer-related
science before being formally changed to the present synnoetics. A
list of the courses available to undergraduates includes:
Von Neumann Machines and Turing Machines
Elements of Automatic Programming
Theory, Design, and Construction of Compilers
Algorithms: Theory, Design, and Applications
Foundations of the Science of Models
The Theory, Design, and Application of Non-Numeric Models
Heuristics
Self-Programming Computers
Advice Giving—Man to Machine and Machine to Man
Simulation: Principles and Techniques
Pattern Recognition and Learning by Automata
The Grammar, Syntax, and Use of Formal Languages for
Communication Between Machine and Machine and Between
Man and Man
Man-Automaton Systems: Their Organization, Use, and Control
Problem-Solving: an Analysis of the Relationship Between the
Problem-Solver, the Problem, and the Means for Solution
Measurements of the Fundamental Characteristics of the Elements
of Synnoetic Systems
Botany Department
Machine-Guided Taxonomy in Botany
Business School
Synnoetic “Business Executives”
Engineering School
Theory of Error and Equipment Reliability
Design of Analog and Digital Computers
Humanities Department
Theory of Creative Processes in the Fine Arts
Law School
Patent and Precedence Searches with Computers
The Effect of Automata on the Legislative and Judicial Process
Mathematics Department
The Theory of Graphs and the Organization of Automata
Medical School
Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis and Prescription for Treatment
Philosophy
The Relationships between Models and the Phenomena That Are
Modeled
Psychology Department
Studies in Intuition and Intellect of Synnoetic Systems
Simulation in the Behavioral Sciences
Sociology Department
Synnoetics in Modern Society
The speaker proudly refers to the achievement of the faculty
mediator and a computer in settling the “famous” strike of 1970.
He simply got both sides first to agree that each would benefit by concentrating
attention—not on arguing and finally settling the issues one at a time—but on
arguing and finally settling on a program for an automaton. This program would
evaluate the thousands of alternative settlements and would recommend a small
class of settlements each of which was nearly optimum for both sides. The
automaton took only 30 minutes to produce the new contract last year. It would
have taken one year to do this manually, and even then it would have been done
less exhaustively. Agreeing on the program took one week. Of course, you have
already heard that in many areas where people are bargaining or trying to make
optimum decisions such as in the World Nations Organization, in the World Court,
and in local, federal, and world legislative bodies, there is now serious
consideration being given to convincing opposing factions to try to agree on a
program and having once agreed on it, the contract or legislation or judgment or
decision produced with the program would be accepted as optimum for both sides.
Automata may also be provided to judges and juries to advise them of the effects
of such factors as weight of evidence on verdicts in civil cases.
Dr. Fein makes an excellent case for the usefulness of the science
of synnoetics; the main point of challenge to his paper might be that
its date is too conservatively distant. Of interest to us here is the idea
of man and machine working in harmony for the good of both.
Another paper, “The Coming Technological Society,” presented by
Dr. Simon Ramo at the University of California at Los Angeles, May
1, 1961, also discusses the possible results of man-machine
cooperation during the remainder of the twentieth century. He lists
more than a dozen specific and important applications for
intellectronics in the decades immediately ahead of us. Law,
medicine, engineering, libraries, money, and banking are among
these. Pointing out that man is as unsuited for “putting little marks on
pieces of paper” as he was for building pyramids with his own
muscles, he suggests that our thumbprints and electronic scanners
will take care of all accounting. Tongue in cheek, he does say that
there will continue to be risks associated with life; for instance, a
transistor burning out in Kansas City may accidentally wipe out
someone’s fortune in Philadelphia.
The making of reservations is onerous busywork man should not
have to waste his valuable time on, and the control of moving things
too is better left to the machine for the different reason that man’s
unaided brain cannot cope with complex and high-speed traffic
arteries, be they in space or on Los Angeles freeways. Business and
military management will continue to be aided by the electronic
machine.
But beyond all these benefits are those more important ones to
our brains, our society, and culture. Teaching machines, says Dr.
Ramo, can make education ten times more effective, thus increasing
our intellect. And this improved intellect, multiplied by the electronic
machine into intellectronic brainpower, is the secret of success in the
world ahead. Instead of an automated, robotlike regimented world
that some predict, Ramo sees greater democracy resulting. Using
the thumbprint again, and the speed of electronics, government of
our country will be truly by the people as they make their feelings
known daily if necessary.
Intellectronic legislation will extend beyond a single country’s
boundaries in international cooperation. It will smash the language
and communication barriers. It will permit and implement not only
global prediction of weather, but global control as well. Because of
the rapid handling of vast amounts of information, man can form
more accurate and more logical concepts that will lead to better
relations throughout the world. Summing up, Dr. Ramo points out
that intellectronics benefits not only the technical man but social man
as well:
The real bottleneck to progress, to a safe, orderly, and happy transition to the
coming technological age, lies in the severe disparity between scientific and
sociological advance. Having discussed technology, with emphasis on the future
extension of man’s intellect, we should ask: Will intellectronics aid in removing the
imbalance? Will technology, properly used, make possible a correction of the very
imbalance which causes technology to be in the lead? I believe that the
challenging intellectual task of accelerating social progress is for the human mind
and not his less intellectual partner. But perhaps there is hope. If the machines do
more of the routine, everyday, intellectual tasks and insure the success of the
material operation of the world, man’s work will be elevated to the higher mental
domains. He will have the time, the intellectual stature, and hence the inclination to
solve the world’s social problems. We must believe he has the capability.
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