The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present-day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If th…

Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent keyboard devices, but it could not then come …

There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is sta…

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…

'There is no VIP room in reality, and there is no reality in this city. You can't Google the answer.'[citation needed]

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…