The telephone is growing up fast. It can now talk (a robot voice tells callers the time and weather). It acts as if it could think (when dialed on local calls). And last week in Philadelphia it was acting even more so. In operation was a new Bell Telephone Laboratories mechanical brain which enables the instrument to put through long distance calls without human assistance.
This is no mean achievement. A toll call, which must be relayed along a maze of loops and trunk lines, usually involves several skilled operators and a number of complex connections. In the new system, an operator...
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