Typical of the caution were quotes like
``In spite of its powers, the analyser cannot solve problems the mathematician cannot do himself''
despite the title of the 1949 Newsweek article ``The Great Electro-Mechanical Brain''
Aitken did speculate in Time (1950)
``it might be possible to ``program'' a machine to beat the stock market''
He should have added ``into the ground.''
By and large predictions were mundane and extraordinarily cautious.