A Belief May Be Larger Than A

The Summation Of Human Experience Is Being Expanded At A Prodigious Rate, And The Means We Use For Threading Through The Consequent Maze To The Momentarily Important Item Is The Same As Was Used In The Days Of Square-rigged Ships.

A Record, If It Is To Be Useful To Science, Must Be Continuously Extended, It Must Be Stored, And Above All It Must Be Consulted.

The Question Of Whether A Device Will Come Into Being Depends Upon Three Things: First, Whether There Is A Practical Use For It That Warrants Its Development And Manufacturing Costs; Second, Whether The Laws Of Physics Applying To The Elements Available For Its Design Allow The Attainment Of The Needed Ranges, Sensitivities, Or The Like; And Third, Whether The Pertinent Art Of Manufacture Has Advanced Sufficiently To Allow A Useful Embodiment To Be Built Successfully.

Thus Science May Implement The Ways In Which Man Produces, Stores, And Consults The Record Of The Race.

There Will Always Be Plenty Of Things To Compute In The Detailed Affairs Of Millions Of People Doing Complicated Things.