Shannon after Bell Labs

Quote from "The Idea Factory: How Bell Labs Created the Future" page 317:

"Shannon nonetheless remained interested in the implications of his work.  His speeches from that era suggest a man quietly convinced that information--how it moved, how it was stored, how it was processed--would soon define global societies and economies.  A few years after he entered academia, in 1959, he lectured to an audience of students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. 'I think that this present century in a sense will see a great upsurge and development of this whole information business,' Shannon remarked.  The future, he predicted, would depend on 'the business of collecting information and the business of transmitting it from one point to another, and perhaps most important of all, the business of processing it--using it to replace man at semi-rote operation[s] at a factor ... even the replacement of man in the things we almost think of as creating, things like doing mathematics or translating languages."