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Futility by S.P. Meek:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
"WE read perpetually of plotting curves. For instance, by obtaining the necessary data and information, the time of future tides can be predicted with exactitude. Certain machines are now in use that can solve all kinds of seemingly unsolvable mathematical problems in a very short space of time.
It seems to us quite possible that some day some scientist and mathematician might attain the apparently "impossible" and learn to plot curves for human beings which will result in true prophecies. How desirable such an invention might be is another matter. Much philosophising might be done on that score. Certainly the author furnishes food for thought."
('Futility' by Captain S.P. Meek)
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