COMPUTERIZED INDEXING NEED NOT BE IMPOSSIBLE

Within less than 20 years vast new areas of the solar system have been brought closer: the Moon has been visited by man and Mars, Venus and even some of the further planets have been brought into sharper focus than could ever have been achieved through astronomy. This new era of exploration has been founded on skills in rocketry, but none of this could have been at tained without enormous advances in com putation. All would have seemed impossible far less than a lifetime ago. Therefore, the time is illchosen to state that something may be impossible (as Mr Neil Fisk1 implies in his letter about computerized indexing), even though it may be difficult to achieve at present and be of doubtful economic value.