“About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.” ThinkingKnowsDoneScienceOrderHoursDecisionInformationPositionNeededFindingsRelationObviousFinishedMore TimeCentsObtainingGraphs Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990 Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.” ThinkingYearsSeemsTogetherScienceIndividualLinesInformationCommunicationBandFunctionLibraryConnectedWideReasonableUsersWirePresent DayStorage Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990 Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.” ThinkingMenShouldYearsMayUseProblemWould BeScienceHistoryCreativeStudyFiveGroupsMankindMilitaryDevelopmentComputerIntellectualMachinesExcitingFive YearsSignificanceArtificial IntelligenceArtificialProblem SolvingSymbiosisStudy GroupMultidisciplinary Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990 Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.” ThinkingMenWayScienceDecisionActivityConsequenceMachinesInsightOperationsAssumptionLogicalDevotedPreparingHypothesisTransformingCalculating Author:J. C. R. Licklider
“We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.” NeedsBookScienceEasyInformationMaterialsDevicesSubstitutesTransmit Author:J. C. R. Licklider
