“There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.”
As We May Think (1945)
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First Inaugural Address (4 March 1829).
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Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 98