雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(33)
These proposals were eminently practical, and indeed prophetic, foreseeing the need for flexible interaction between operator and machine.
But of course he had already seen the future, in the use of the Colossus.
當他使用巨人機的時候，他就已經看到了這樣的未來。Another passage brought in the possibility of using remote terminals:
在報告的另一頁，他談到了遠程終端的可能性：
ace will do the work of about 10,000 (human) computers.
一臺ACE能夠完成約10, 000個人工計算者的工作量，It is to be expected therefore that large scale hand-computing will die out.
因此將會有大量的手工計算工作被它取代。(Human) computers will still be employed on small calculations, such as the substitution of values in formulae,
人工計算者也許還能做些小規模的計算工作，比如替換算式中的數值，but whenever a single calculation may be expected to take a (human) computer days of work, it will presumably be done by an electronic computer instead.
但即便是這樣的工作，他們也要花上好幾天時間才能完成。因此，小規模計算工作，最好也交給電子計算機。This will not necessitate everyone interested in such work having an electronic computer.
這並不需要每個從事這類工作的人都擁有一臺電子計算機，It would be quite possible to arrange to control a distant computer by means of a telephone line.
通常情況下，他們可以通過電話線路來操縱一臺遠程計算機。Special input and output machinery would be developed for use at these out-stations, and would cost a few hundred pounds at most.
這隻需要開發一些特殊的輸入輸出終端，其成本最多也就幾百英鎊。He also perceived the demand for computer programmers:
同時，圖靈還考慮了對計算機編程人員的需求：The main bulk of the work done by these computers will however consist of problems which could not have been tackled by hand computing because of the scale of the undertaking.
這些計算機器，將主要用於解決一些規模過大、手工計算無法完成的問題。In order to supply the machine with these problems we shall need a great number of mathematicians of ability.
爲了將這些問題輸入機器，我們需要大量的數學人員，These mathematicians will be needed in order to do the preliminary research on the problems, putting them into a form for computation. ...
由他們來對問題進行一些基本的處理，將其轉換成可以由機器進行計算的形式。
