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Ground Computer Selects: Another example is the Nike missile system, which is a ground-to-air antiaircraft defense system. A ground radar tracks the aircraft, and a ground computer selects the Nike missile most favorably located for interception and fires it automatically at the proper time. A second ground radar then tracks the missile. The outputs frou the radar tracking the aircraft and the radar
king the missile are fed to the computer, lich automatically guides the missile via a com-I channel incorporated in the missile-tracking ir.
Potential applications of the computer made possible by microelectronics include a small computer in every home or a pocket computer terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man.
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