Abstract :
Up to the Second World War, mechanical devices and inventions were concerned in the main with increasing man´s physical power. They stopped short at mechanised muscle and did not ever contemplate the mechanised mind. Today this frontier is being crossed and we have entered what I am colloquially calling the `press-button age¿; we are designing and constructing machines that are capable of performing the kind of operations that have hitherto been regarded as the exclusive work of the human brain
