# 1976 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FILM "COMPUTERS AND TRANSPORTATION" 91764

‘Computers and Transportation’ is a future-looking, 1976 short educational film which analyze the rapid technological advances in computer systems, and then examines the potential impact on transportation, animation and graphics as well as space travel and artificial intelligence. It begins with the look inside of a ‘modern’ electronic digital computer (:34). The guts are composed of 50,000 transistors, 125,000 resistors and 500,000 connectors which were all connected by 20 miles of wire. A magnetic tape for storing data was filled by either magnetic disk or laser memory systems (:53). IBM computer chips (1:05). Prescient predictions about computers infiltrating human lives in such a way that they will affect where we travel, what we buy and where we go to eat (1:14). Saturn V rocket launch. Computers enabled the beginning of space research and exploration (1:49). The film then takes a look at the artificial intelligence robot named “Shakey”. This was the first general purpose robot that could think about its own actions. It was created in 1966 by the SRI Institute in the Stanford Research Institute of California. Viewers are given a shot of a view from the world as seen by “Shakey” (4:30). His task (4:45) is to push a cardboard box off a platform (5:17). Arthur C. Clarke (5:28), the prominent science writer, discusses the future of computers and artificial intelligence (5:28). Clarke is known for co-writing the screenplay for the film “2001 A Space Odyssey”. An inside look…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/91764-computers-and-transportation-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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