The information links are like nerves that pervade and help to animate the human organism. The sensors and monitors are analogous ...to the human senses that put us in touch with the world. Data bases correspond to memory; the information processors perform the function of human reasoning and comprehension. Once the postmodern infrastructure is reasonably integrated, it will greatly exceed human intelligence in reach, acuity, capacity, and precision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they wer...e aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one t...he solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »