Modern Calculators – Locke – Astounding Stories (1949)

> Meteorologists know how to calculate the exact weather six hours in advance. It's sadly useless knowledge, at present, because the best staff of [human] computers needs six weeks of calculating to do it. But a machine, now--

Article is a detailed survey of principles and state-of-the-art of analog and digital calculators (computers), and possible applications such as meteorology, fluid dynamics, and other fields which have actually come to fruitation.

> Theoretical studies are now under way about the principles of machines which would solve problems symbolically. One example relates to the solution of problems in symbolic logic, another to a machine which will perform mathematical--not arithmetical--operations directly. There is even a proposal for a machine to play chess.