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DEALING WITH THE FUTURE CONFIDENTIAL (U) Technological surprises are closely related to, or possibly just another face of, failure of nerve. Who in 1940 could have made a reasonable case for the computer? In 1945 for the transistor? In 1950 for the laser? {n 1965 for pulse code modulation? By their…