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    Can IT Cure Congress?

    In 1968, an instructor of political science had reason to hope that computers would make government wiser.

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    Automation Sets Us Free

    A 1929 essay by Arthur D. Little argued that workers and consumers would benefit from more mass production, not less.

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    The Airplane’s Infancy

    By 1913 we’d learned how to fly. Now came the hard part—designing flying machines that were safe and reliable.

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    Churchill's Warning

    In a 1949 address published in Technology Review and excerpted here, Winston Churchill said new technologies create problems even as they solve others.

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    81 Years Ago

    The fear that our devices are somehow altering our brains might seem exclusively modern. But in 1931, Technology Review published “Machine-Made Minds: The Psychological Effects of Modern Technology,” in which John Bakeless explored how machines had transformed the very nature of human thought. Here’s what he had to say:

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    Books on Tape

    A group led by Harvard academics hopes to compile a library of everything. One forward thinker from 1961 might have asked: What took you so long?

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