> they just couldn’t quite imagine the computer Or they imagined that such devices would be much more powerful but much less general than what we actually have

> they just couldn’t quite imagine the computer Or they imagined that such devices would be much more powerful but much less general than what we actually have. The card showing books being shredded and fed into students by headphone looks like a computer to me even though it is cranked manually. Quite a lot of my software development career was dedicated to programs that transformed knowledge in one form (specifications and domain expertise) into knowledge in a different form (detailed drawings, bills of materials, and descriptions of the final product.