Man-Computer Symboisis

In the article Man Computer Symboisis, I learned that at the time (1960) there was an interesting outlook on the future for computers (the article clarified computer as calculating, data-processing, and information storage-and-retrieval machines).
The article begins with some information about the fig tree and the insect Blastophaga grossorum that pollinates this tree. The tree and insect are interdependent. During that time there were no man-computer symbioses. This article was written to help with the future development of man-computer symbioses which would mean that computers and humans could work together by the computers ability to respond to input by the human. I find this article to be very interesting because it was ahead of it's time. Computer science has come so far since then and this article brought about a great idea for the future of humans and computers. The internet as we know it today has it's roots in this idea. There was a lot of research going on, but there was no internet at that time. Now that we have the internet like this at our fingertips we are able to do many things that we could not do at that time. Although there are still communication errors and internet problems that we have to solve on occasion, we still have an incredible amount of information and knowledge available through the use of computers. We can also store this information easily as well as input data and receive important information back. I was not aware of Licklider before, but after reading this article I have a better understanding of the ideas of how the internet was once foreseen.