We use computers to supply petroleum, ammunition, people-send orders for training, move 'em around the country. You don't do anything in the Navy without a piece of paper, and they all come out of computers. Same thing's true of your big companies. If those computers stopped, this whole country would come to a screeching halt. If we didn't have computers, we'd be solving these problems on paper and some that we do in an hour would take three hundred years.
Computers are tools.
If I have a wrench in the garage to fix the kitchen sink. So when we write laws they shouldn't be laws about computers, but laws about the people who use them. We're developing very good tecnniques for keeping unauthorized people from plugging into the computer system. It won't make books obsolete. It is too tiring to read on computers.