ABSTRACT
Having examined the history of computer applications we are naturally attracted to an examination of their future limits, not in computing capacity but rather what kinds of things computers can and perhaps cannot do. Before we get too far I need to remind you computers manipulate symbols, not information; we are simply unable to say, let alone write a program for what we mean by the word “information”. We each believe we know what the word means, but hard thought on your part will convince you it is a fuzzy concept at best, you cannot give a definition which can be converted into a program.
