"Make no mistake about the Faustian origins of computing machinery. Just as the proto-human brain's capability to make fast ballistic calculations may have been exapted by linguistic word-marshaling capabilities, the machines that Engelbart wanted to use to help humans solve problems were originally created to perform ballistic calculations"
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