Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Episode One (The Electrical Brain) was shown this week. The next chapter (The Bat's Cave) will be shown during vacation. But don't miss any more of this serial--it's terribly camp. The Brattle has done a good thing for the cause justice...
...each year, so the odds against any one winning the Derby are 15,000 to 1. Still, folks keep trying. Financier Louis Wolfson has been at it for years. In 1961 he had a top prospect in Roving Minstrel, but one day Roving Minstrel reared over backward, damaged his brain, and had to be destroyed. "The breaks of the game," sighed Wolfson, and coughed up $39,000 for another colt, Raise a Native. The horse won four races, smashed two track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before...
...computer is beginning to affect the very fabric of society, kindling both wonder and widespread apprehension. Is the computer a friend or enemy of man? Will it cause hopeless unemployment by speeding automation, that disquieting term that it has brought into the language? Will it devalue the human brain, or happily free it from drudgery? Will it ever learn to think for itself...
Learning About Life. Most scientists now agree that too much was made in the early days of the apparent similarities between computers and the human brain. The vacuum tubes and transistors of computers were easy to compare to the brain's neurons-but the comparison has limited validity. "There is a crude similarity," says Honeywell's Bloch, "but the machine would be at about the level of an amoeba." The neurons, which are the most important cells in the brain, number some 10 billion, and each one communicates with the others by as many as several hundred routes...
...ultimate potential and limitations. The computer, says Dr. Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Tech, represents "an advance in man's thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing." Yet the computer is neither the symbol of the millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. For all its fantastic memory and superhuman mathematical ability, it is incapable of exercising independent judgment, has no sense of creativity and no imagination...