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No one knows what it would do to a creative brain to think creatively continously. Perhaps the brain, like the heart, must devote most of its time to rest between beats. But I doubt that is true. I hope it is not, because [interactive computers] can give us our first look at unfettered thought. It can allow a decision maker to do almost nothing but decision making, instead of processing data to get into a position to make the decision.

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from "Computers and the World of the Future (transcribed recordings of a lecture series to celebrate MIT's one hundred anniversary)"
by J.C.R. Licklider