SPACE PAGE 2001

Gold has even now, but a few years to live. The day is near when bars of it will be as common and as cheap as bars of iron or blocks of steel. Before long it will be an easy matter to convert a truck load of iron bars into as many bars of gold.

Where a calculator, like ENIAC, today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may only have 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons!.