- Jan 2017
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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just as though he had the physical page before him
I don't know where I would be without my tablet being able to annotate files, articles, and pdfs.
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Take the prosaic problem of the great department store. Every time a charge sale is made, there are a number of things to be done. The inventory needs to be revised, the salesman needs to be given credit for the sale, the general accounts need an entry, and, most important, the customer needs to be charged.
I can't even imagine working retail without the technology. We barey keep the stores together with the tech we have now!
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It is a far cry from the abacus to the modern keyboard accounting machine. It will be an equal step to the arithmetical machine of the future
From the abacus to the modern keybaord accounting machine, to the smart phone with the scientific calculator.
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delegated to a series of machines, and the cards then transferred bodily from one to another.
How old school, to have more than one machine, and then have to physically take the info from one to the other.
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It is strange that the inventors of universal languages have not seized upon the idea of producing one which better fitted the technique for transmitting and recording speech
Could binary be considered a Universal language between computers, which could be considered better fitted for transmitting and recording speech?
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A scene itself can be just as well looked over line by line by the photocell in this way as can a photograph of the scene.
This made me think of 3D printing because that is done bit by bit, but comes together to create the whole object. Fascinating to see this translated back in time to photography.
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