All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses- the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read. Is it not possible that some day the path may be established more directly?

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race. It might be striking to outline the instrumentalities o…

The impulses which flow in the arm nerves of a typist convey to her fingers the translated information which reaches her eye or ear, in order that the fingers …

The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only at the salient items, and can follow at any time …

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there has been too much of)with ideas (of which there are too few. I found …