“Why did you have to come to the East to build a computer?” Wang asked Von Neumann. Von Neumann and Newton looked at each other, puzzled. “A computer? A computing machine! Such a thing exists?” “You don’t know about computers? Then what did you have in mind for completing the vast amount of calculations?” Von Neumann stared at Wang with wide-open eyes, as though his question made no sense. “Using people, of course. Other than people, what else in the world is capable of performing calculations?”
