Word: alling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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So it was not exactly with sympathy that I entered the machine's bailiwick. Outside the structure was an enormous map of the United States, each county labeled with a number which doubtless contains great significance for the computer. Girls at desks punched out computer cards, and the customers waited...
"If you were given all the materials, supplies, and tools you needed to build a boat, you could still choose to build a tractor." he said. "But if you use what you've got, you achieve a certain freedom."
MY ANALYSIS had arrived, and I was eager to see it. Lutin and Damaska scanned the first page, which is technical information about houses, planets, conjunctions, and opposition. They then proceeded to take astrological pot shots at me, explaining the significance of the way I was dressed, demonstrating how it...
Lutin was right. I didn't see any clergymen, but all sorts of other specimens did appear. They were attracted to this clever conglomerate of circuits and bolts. fascinated by its mystical aura and scientific precision. Damaska had said he considers palmists to be his "spiritual cousins," but these people...
So was I. And, against my will. I still am. Because the machine was right, upsettingly accurate, again and again. Its personality profile ("Your tendency to over intellectualize," the machine informed me, for example, "may make you lose sight of concrete goals,") came unpleasantly close. Its forecast, though not immediately...