Future Predictions
"The desks had.. a little keyboard at each, connected by a wire. The reader had only to find the mark of his book in the catalog, touch a few lettered or numbered keys, and appeared after an astonishing short interval."
Charles Cutter "The Buffalo Public Library in 1983" (Library journal 1883)
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