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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time ten or fifteen years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval.

— J. C. R. Licklider Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)

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It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in ﬁelds for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it.

Licklider (1950)

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

p. 100 as cited in: Recent advances in display media (1982)

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

Ching-chih Chen (1980)

[The computer is also the direct descendant of the telegraph as it enables one... to] "transmit information without transporting material"

p. 6 as cited in: Rodney James Giblett (2008)

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