The press button age

Up to the Second World War, mechanical devices and inventions were concerned in the main with increasing man's physical power. They stopped short at mechanised muscle and did not ever contemplate the mechanised mind. Today this frontier is being crossed and we have entered what I am colloquially calling the `press-button age'; we are designing and constructing machines that are capable of performing the kind of operations that have hitherto been regarded as the exclusive work of the human brain