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Mr. Peter L. Shoup (The Midwest Research Institute) ; I would like to comment on the federal program information example, because this is a beautiful example of what Mr. Kravitz was talking about and it has really been the seminal comment of the evening. First, let me say I am not an informationtechnology m a n ; I am a context man. If you look at the list, you will see that about half of us in the room are confessed hucksters of a kind who deal in context. What Congress is doing in terms of the new Freedom of Information Act seems to me a very good illustration of how Congress is not even as aware of the potential of information—information as power—as Mr.
Everybody knows clearly that in most management problems the criteria and decision problems are not developed according to a simple set of rules. Now, the interesting thing is that there could be developmental pressure from the federal government, because the computer professional capability is a dramatic national resource and one which really has been developed as a usable gadget entirely in this country. Everybody else is trying to catch up, and Comments 35 it is something in which we have an enormous lead and capability.
Kravitz, on the subject of economic and political control, I have a strong concern that, as enlightened as the federal government may be in setting the standard, significant and powerful outside economic groups will be the determiners rather than the federal government of this standard. All of this has led me to a personal philosophy of life in this field. I started in logic-circuit design at the time when IBM had one computer commercially available. I started with Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1953, and there were about four non-military general purpose computers available in the United States.