Word: automatons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder conviction of an enlisted man who had shot a Korean to death while guarding an airfield. The guard claimed that he had been ordered to fire on anyone who did not heed his order to halt, and his lawyer said that this made him, in effect, an automaton without criminal intent. The review board rejected the argument...
Computers can do just about everything but leap tall buildings at a single bound, and someday they will be able to do that too. One long-range goal of the technicians in the Artificial Intelligence Lab is to build an "intelligent automaton" that could substitute for men on a Mars expedition. Carrying enough fuel to get to Mars and back seems impossible, so robots will have to go, explore, report back to earth and stay there (safely out of harm's way?). And since there would be a four-minute or worse radio time lag between here and there, communication...
...pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns him into an automaton that mass-produces Hand after Hand after Hand...
Perhaps more to the point, the Bonn government is also disturbed-and though Lufthansa is independently operated, the government owns 75% of its shares. Last week one government bureaucrat accused Lufthansa of "stressing negative aspects of the German character." Said another: "They present the German as an automaton, a creature without a soul. We can't be happy about that...
Rosewall, however, does most of his thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy...