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«Q: What about computers and the military?
A: The computer was of course born to the military, so to speak. In the United States, the first fully functioning computer was created in order to compute ballistifc trajectories. And in England, to help decipher military codes, Carl Zuse built his computer in order to deal with mathematical problems wich aries in the design of military aircraft.
In all three instances, the computer was the child of the military to begin with. Certainly after the Second World War the baton, so to speak, was passed to the Americans, the leadership for developing the computer came into American hands, and from that point to this I think it is safe to say that by far most of the research and development of computers has been paid for with military money, directly or indirectly.
It is also safe to say, it is simply a matter of fact, that to date weapons which threaten to wipe out the human species altogether could not be made and could certainly not be delivered with any sort of precision were it not for the computers which guide these weapons.
The computer is very deeply involved with the military. Today it counts as the beating heart of virtually every modern military system you can think of with the exception of the foot soldier.
In their book on the fifth generation, Ed Feigenbaum of Stanford University and Pamela McCorduck say that present "smart weapons" will seem like the wind-up toys compared to the weapons we will have once we've entered the use of the fifth generation of computers; that is, have properly introduced artificial intelligence, vision and so on, into weapons.»
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