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The Life Sciences Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs The World of Biological Research Requirements for the Future (1970) / Chapter Skim
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General Facts about Computer Usage
Pages 385-387

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... To assess the role of the computer in a particular field in this case, the life sciences-some general lessons must be understood and some questions examined. After presenting the general lessons rather briefly and dogmatically, we shall ask some appropriate questions concerning the life sciences.
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From page 386...
... More than any other device man has ever built, the power of computers continuously increases from year to year, while costs per computation decrease. The yearly increment of these changes is huge, compared with such changes in other technological products ( e.g., the airplane or metal products ~ .
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From page 387...
... Armer, "Computer aspects of technological change, automation, and economic progress," in The Outlook for Technological Change and Employment, Appendix Volume 1, Technology and the American Economy, The Report of the Commission, Studies Prepared for the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., February 1966.)
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