The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talkingto their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.
According to Arthur C Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" and to a 1960s audience, the talkingcomputers and space stations of 2001: A Space Odyssey must have seemed incredible.
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Heck, they have been talking about how computers and evolving computer storage is going to eliminate the need for paper, and my filing cabinets are still bulging.
It hooks up hundreds of computers around the world to get them talkingto one another at the same time to calculate acoustic and electromagnetic effects on the fuselages of fighter planes when they are in steep angles of attack.