Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussion came during "Information Technology and Society," a symposium held in the Science Center. Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell, former IBM Executive Lewis M. Branscomb, MIT Professor Michael L. Dertouzos and McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics Anthony G. Ottinger '51 participated...
...Bell spoke at length about the challenges computers present to national governments...
Many national governments, he said, lack the expertise necessary to use computer technology. Such nations could suffer unless they can protect themselves from more advanced ones which could use technology to exploit them, Bell said...
...country can completely control its own currency," Bell said, noting that brokers can purchase the currencies of all nations from a computer in one central office. He said what control nations do have will erode as traders make greater use of technology that is now available...
...many years Americans treated the College with the reverence only bestowed upon such venerable institutions as the British Monarchy and the Liberty Bell. Until the late 16th century, Harvard was a state institution, given special status in the charter of Massachusetts. Until 1870, the governor ordered the closure of business on the day of Harvard's Commencement ceremonies. By 1960, America had placed six Harvard graduates in the White House...