Talk:The Thinker (Audio Diary)

Note - People might not know that most computers way back did not operate in 'real time' and you put data on tapes and cards and ran a program as a batch program and got the output out (tapes/paper). Many of the first 'real time' computers were done for the military controlling radar and missile interceptors and cost tens of millions of dollars back whe money was worth many times as much as now.

So "process data at the speed of thought"  can imply where it does so immedieately as things are happening.

Now having it control every door, etc.. in Rapture is pretty dim (especially when a thing called an "electric eye" costing a dollar could do the same thing). But setting up train/bathysphere/trolley schedules and monitor utilities and leak sensors would be much better jobs for such a system