Vannevar Bush Quote

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 million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

As We May Think (1945)

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

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

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

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