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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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blems and to contribute our own ideas and sug-gestions. Because life in the federal government can be anexciting and challenging experience, the temptationto stay on is great. Five of the first group of WhiteHouse Fellows did remain, although one has sinceleft to join Stanford Research institute. The others,I suspect, will be back in the private sector beforelong. Since the program is not in any way intendedto recruit people for government, the great majoritywill always move on to make room for a new groupof Fellows. When we do, Im sure well all take back a muchgreater sensitivity for government and a realizationthat things arent always as simple as they appear onthe outside, in particular, I think everyone who goesthrough the White House Fellows program leaveshere with a strong desire to become more personallyinvolved at all levels of government. If there is onething weve learned here, it is that Washingtondoesnt have all the answers. □ ^t.^?TT«»>7V\?sV^-r«l^ ■/c5p( f;m«4^
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Technologys Great Need: Information Retrieval By Walter K. MacAdam Someone once characterized engineering as thefunction of transferring bottlenecks from one loca-tion to another. Certainly experience tells us thatevery time we solve one problem we discover a fewmore staring us in the face. Todays major bottlenecksto progress tend to be man-made. And today, spe-cifically, engineers and scientists are creating one ailof their own. They are producing knowledge fasterthan they can collect and absorb it. In short, we arecaught in a serious bottleneck in the transfer ofscientific and technical information. Information transfer problems are not new; theyhave beset mankind for hundreds of centuries, eversince man began to depend on a merged intellect, asummation of the knowledge of many individualminds. Survival became subject to the ability tocommunicate verbally and to remember. Mans firstknowledge limitation became one of language. About 6,000 years ago someone — probably anearly engine

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