The memory and the control lyrics by Pet Shop Boys

A man from the future tracklist

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1. Natural wonders every child should know
2. He dreamed of machines
3. The Enigma
4. Other ranks
5. The memory and the control lyrics
6. The trial
7. Only in his death
8. A man from the future

[Juliet Stevenson:]
1944
As the European War ground to its end
It became clear that Alan's interest had turned to the brain
In speaking of building a brain
He did not mean that the components of his machine should resemble the components of a brain
Or that their connections should imitate the manner in which the regions of the brain were connected
That the brain stored words, pictures, skills in some definite way
Connected with input signals from the senses and output signals to the muscles
Was almost all he needed
He described to his assistant his idea of the universal machine that could take over the work of any machine
And thus it was that working with one assistant in a small hut
And thinking in his spare time
An English homosexual atheist mathematician
Had conceived of the computer
This threw all the emphasis onto a new place
The construction of a large, fast, effective, all-purpose, electronic memory
He concentrated upon the two really important things
The memory and the control

[Neil Tennant:]
The memory and the control
The memory and the control
The memory and the control
The memory and the control

[Juliet Stevenson:]
He had created something quite original
The art of computer programming

[Neil Tennant:]
The memory and the control
The memory and the control

[Juliet Stevenson:]
"I do not see why the machine should not enter any one of the fields
Normally covered by the human intellect
And eventually compete on equal terms"

[Neil Tennant:]
The memory and the control
The memory and the control
The memory and the control
The memory and the control