To understand artificial intelligence in 2019, watch this 1960 TV show

"If the computer is this important, why haven't I heard more about it?" "Well, the computer is a relatively new thing, and we're just really getting an appreciation for the full range of its usefulness. Many people think that it's going to spark a revolution that will change the face of the earth almost as much as the first industrial revolution did." The skeptic posing the question is David Wayne, a crusty actor familiar to audiences of the time from movies such as Adam's Rib and TV shows like The Twilight Zone. The two men are cohosts of "The Thinking Machine," a documentary about artificial intelligence aired as part of a CBS series called Tomorrow, which the network produced in conjunction with MIT. It debuted on the night of October 26, less than two weeks before John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election.