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Dates: during 1967-1967
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These remarkable extensions of man's grasp and vision are relatively simple examples of a relatively new and promising technology called "telefactoring" (doing something at a distance). Merely by adding miniaturized electronics and wideband communications, says Electrical Engineeer William Bradley, the pilot can be taken out of his cockpit, the driver out of his truck. The distance between them and their work can be extended across a continent. Eventually, Bradley told the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a more sophisticated form of telefactoring may replace human beings on many space flights-without replacing the judgments and actions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Extending Man's Grasp | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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