Automation and the written word

Today´s virtual stream of new automatic machines, processes, and devices continues to have an increasing effect in the area of the world´s general knowledge and its communication of that knowledge. Two recent developments, for example, deal with information processing and with information distribution. New machines to help make possible the “automatic library” of the future were demonstrated in Washington, D.C., by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) at the International Conference on Scientific Information.