Text of Ove Arup's Computer Christening Speech, 1967

You can read more about this speech and my own encounter with it in my full blog post on the topic . Document citation: Churchill Archives Centre, Papers of Ove Arup, ARUP 5/62 SPEECH AT CHRISTENING OF COMPUTER. 11 MAY 1967. Our old computer has been discarded - a new one, bigger, better, more powerful, more gleamingly efficient - has taken its place. This is life - this is progress. 'Progress' is…