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1949/05, Popular Science, "Want to Buy a Brain"Tags
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Now you can, for a measly $200,000.
Its vacuum tubes will make up your mind for you far faster than your gray matter can.
YOU can buy a machine now to do some of your thinking for you. It will give a definite answer to any question that can be expressed mathematically. Ask one of these machines how thick the cables for a new bridge should be, and it will tell you. Ask how fast a new automobile can go before its crankshaft starts to vibrate to pieces, and it will give the exact speed. You can order one of these electronic brains from a number of organizations. They are being made by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., Raytheon Mfg. Co., Harvard, M.LT., the University of Pennsylvania, and jointly by RCA and the Institute of Advanced Study.
