ARPA Director J

question 36

Multiple Choice

ARPA Director J.C.R. Licklider conceived of a Galactic Network that would

• A) control weapons from space.
• B) guide spacecraft to distant planets.
• C) become the world's most powerful number-crunching machine.
• D) facilitate the exchange of programs and data.
• E) All of the above

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