People who predict what the future will be like seem always to turn out to be wrong. Have you noticed that? For example, rather than making the human brain obsolete, as some predicted, computers seem to have made humans even more important and necessary. Nevertheless, ever since the 1960s there has been widespread speculation that computers are going to "take over." Here is an article published in The Atlantic in 1975 that analyzed the issue from several different angles.
Thanks to Conor Friedersdorf.
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