Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another.
Whilst I do think that technology often ruins the "analog experience" there are so many benefits to advancing the way that we do things to the point that saying "they don't make things like they used to" feels like naïve nostalgia.
If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.
Prior to reading this I was unaware of how complex the things that I take for granted every day truly are.
It requires a few seconds to make the selection, although the process could be speeded up if increased speed were economically warranted.
My only question here is why would it not be at max speed all of the time? Mental fatigue?
But even this new machine will not take the scientist where he needs to go.
Again, this feeds back to the last point that regardless of new technology it always seems that we will need more as a society. Electric car is built? Not enough mileage. Internet is 1GB/s? Not fast enough. It seems to never end.
All this complication is needed because of the clumsy way in which we have learned to write figures.
Honestly I think this is how mathematicians work nowadays. When I was taking Math 151 it seemed like there was so much unnecessary work in order to get to a fairly simple end game.
needs to be far faster in action than present examples, but it probably could be.
This seems that this seems to be the outlook of all evolving technology of the past, present, and future.