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The Computer and the Mind of Man

In the 1940s a different kind of tool was invented a tool for extending certain powers of mans mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

The Computer and the Mind of Man

First Air Date

December 3, 1962

Last Air Date

January 7, 1963

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Language

English

Production Companies

NET

Networks

S01E06

Engine at the Door

J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of ENIAC and vice president of the UNIVAC division of the Sperry Rand Corporation, begins by asking the question, “Will machines ever run man?” Eckert comments, “If we are able to make a machine which is capable of emulating human thinking and is capable of self-reproduction. I hope that the man who does this has the presence of mind to kick the plug out of the socket before he starts running.”

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