"Within the 20-year period the comprehensive automation of production will be effected on a large scale, with more and more shops and plants being fully automated. The introduction of highly efficient automatic control systems will be accelerated. Cybernetics, computers, and control systems must be introduced on a large scale in industry, research, designing, planning, accounting, statistics and management".
Specialists in cybernetics are working on the development of self-learning machines capable of solving problems set by man.
These self-learning cybernetic systems can collect various data, analyze them and perform certain operations as a result of the analysis. What is more, they are able to produce qualitatively new information. For example, a cybernetic machine for chemists will not only give information on any specific problem but will indicate the way to develop some new substance, say a new plastic that would be cheap and durable.
A good numbers of these machines are already working in our industry, such as a cybernetic system for the iron and steel industry, an electronic system for geological prospecting a cybernetic designer, which designs gas pipelines and automatized the passing gas along these pipes.
Automation in our country has reached the stage of developing fully avtomatized industries. Electronic computing techniques find wide application in and serve as a basis for the development of modem programme-controlled machine tools, the controlling of spaceship flights, weather forecast and planning work.