The November 8 , 1970 Chronicle - Telegram ( Elyria , OH ) ran an article titled , “ Computersville is almost here . ” The entire piece appear below .
NEW YORK ( UPI ) – In Computersville this 24-hour interval , Jane Doe presses buttons on the miniskirt - information processing system in her kitchen .
She orders up a week ’s worth of low - small calorie carte du jour . Within micro - seconds , the machine organise such repast design . Then it print them .
Before she entered the kitchen , Mrs. Doe stopped briefly in the living room to look up to the syndicate ’s new self-command – a immense geometrical print , drawn by computer .
As she go about her job , she is relaxed by the sound of her favorite record , Computer Concerto . This boast a musical score create by computer and orchestrated by calculator . The sounds are electronic . There are blips and beep and modulated static .
At times the sounds mix noises of a dozen jets waiting on the runway to pasquinade . all in all , it is a pleasant record .
In the afternoon , Mrs. Doe goes to her small-scale townspeople ’s aesculapian midpoint for her yearly physical . Among other things , she has an ECG – administered by technicians , processed by figurer and read , of course , by calculator .
The printout on her eletrocardiogram : “ Non specific T - wave change . Possibly borderline gram . credibly within normal limits . ”
All of these things from the world of reckoner were seen at an unconventional conventionalism in New York – the 25th National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery .
They will come home to roost in the not - too - upstage time to come . You probably wo n’t have to wait until the year 2,000 , for example , to have computer nontextual matter and music in your home . hospital of the land already are experiment with diagnosis by computer .
The menu – plan computer for the kitchen , while a piece expensive around $ 10,000 , is available . It is designed to help keep raceway of fiscal records , lend a mitt with the nestling ’s prep – and perform many other tasks .
After Radiohead’sAmnesiacwas liberate , friends and I would joke that their next record would be nothing but airplane noises . I would actually be interested in try that Computer Concerto disk .
See also:1999 A.D. ( 1967)Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future ( 1957)That 60 ’s Food of the FutureMonsanto House of the Future ( 1957 - 1967)Call a Serviceman ( Chicago Tribune , 1959)The Electronic Brain Made Beef Stew ( 1959)Something must be unseasonable with its radar eye ! ( Chicago Tribune , 1959 )
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