To be able to key one sheet of a million before an operator in a second or two, with the possibility of then adding notes thereto, is suggestive in many ways. It might even be of use in libraries, but that is another story. At any rate, there are now some interesting combinations possible. One might, for example, speak to a microphone, in the manner described in connection with the speech-controlled typewriter, and thus make his selections. It would certainly beat the usual file clerk.

There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a m…

Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing. When data of any sort are placed in storage, they are fi…

There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural f…

There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code o…

A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater f…

'I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 b…