Problems Involved in the Application of Electronic Digital Computers to Business Operations

Two years ago a leading periodical surveyed the field of automatic computers, and found that it had undergone remarkable development in the previous decade. These machines had done so many and such remarkable jobs in wartime scientific applications that it seemed reasonable to predict:It won't be very long before U.S. businessmen can employ electronic brains to:keep business accountsrun continuous sales recordscompute and send out billshandle entire payrolskeep running inventoriesfix production schedulesserve as vast filing systemschart corporate expansion.