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...neuropsychiatrist in the Air Force, Coles began working with children undergoing the stress of school desegregation when he was stationed in Louisiana during the 1960s...
Think of Weegee as a chronological and psychological midpoint between two utterly different photographers. One is the turn-of-the-century muckraker Jacob Riis, who saw New York City as a social problem to be solved. The other is Diane Arbus, who found in the city life of the 1960s a psychic spectacle of creepy fascination. Weegee haunts the same kind of shabby neighborhoods that Riis did. But what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer...
...early 1960s, the computer industry was in the midst of a benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got hotter, like a grad student sweating his orals. The heat came from vacuum tubes, which acted as giant on-off switches, holding and releasing electrical charges. (A central "computer" tallied up all the on-off signals as ones and zeroes, and translated the results into real mathematics.) But the tubes, which sucked...
That too represents an enormous psychological change from the 1950s. In the postwar boom, there was general agreement about shoring up the New Deal institutions that promised to protect people if there were another economic earthquake. That consensus was carried into the expansion of the 1960s but then rolled back in the 1980s. "Most people may want to see welfare reformed," says Mitchell, "but a by-product of that is the widespread notion now that you're on your own. The old social contract that there will be help in bad times is disappearing...
...sufficiently advanced technology," wrote Arthur C. Clarke in the early 1960s, "is indistinguishable from magic." One lesson of our Man of the Year's life is that while technology lets us produce ever more astounding machines, it has little to say about how we might use them. For that we rely on the likes of Andy Grove. What Intel's chairman has inside is magic...