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**“Our Pal, the Computer,” The Washington Post Outlook, Joshua Lederberg, January 1967**

A photocopy of an article in a newspaper magazine

**“Our Pal, the Computer,” The Washington Post Outlook, Joshua Lederberg, January 1967**

In the 1960s, as in the present, there were reservations about computers and automation. Here, artificial intelligence pioneer Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008) attempts to assuage fear around technology and highlights some of the ways computers were already being used to improve life at the time.

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