Abstract
Congressman Roman C. Pucinski (D.-Ill.) has introduced a bill, H.R. 1946, to establish a National Scientific Data Processing Center in Chicago. This bill would expand the work of the National Science Foundation's Science Information Service and move the operation to Chicago. The objective would be to build something similar to the Soviet Ail-Union Institute of Scientific and Technological Information. The search for a solution to the scientific information problem repeatedly turns up this type of idea: a single central organization set apart to receive all scientific information and, through the highly sophisticated use of machines available now and in the future, provide any needed combinations of information from all branches of science to fill requests. As a solution it is as obvious as is perpetual motion a solution to our energy problems. Is it as likely? Any efficient organization with computers and related equipment could perform some dazzling feats of information gathering and combination. However...
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