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OCR: 3-24 DO CUMENT WORKSHEETS A N D DATA. BA. SES Spread sh "Intellige nc In what sense is spreadsheet software intelligent? When mainframe computers first made the headlines r the 1950s they had an unsettling effect on the American public And no wonder Headlines paqqnp these computers "Giant Brains and journalists speculated how long might be until computers 'took OV er "The public was paci fied when word spread that computers could only follow the instructions their human programmers Fifty years have passed sin ce the Giant Brain headlines appeared. Computer technology has improv ved to the point where sometimes seems that computers do have some OS of intelligence- -o at least they seem to anticipate what you want them to do You'll run into some examples ot this when you use spreadsheet soft ...