Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing basic work on computer displays that might well be used in the cockpits of fancy planes. "Very powerful lasers" for weapon purposes. And "I don't have anything to do with applications." Just provide the brainpower. Just plot the lines, design the programs, and let another push the button. And "it's peacetime." When it's wartime, the military will use the peacetime hardware...
...buzz word for Abt and Wilkes supporters seems to be "flexibility." "We want to send a message to the CCA," says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...stalemate" in which "the only defense is, well, you shoot yours and we'll shoot ours," then "I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button...
...details, apply colors, change shapes, test them under mathematically simulated conditions and edit and modify them. When the work is finished, the computer then stores the results in its memory much as a word processor files office memos or reports for later retrieval. When needed, a touch of a button recalls the most elaborate designs, from the surface of a semiconductor chip to the layout of a sprawling petrochemical complex, back to the screen for examination and perhaps revision...
...CAD/CAM loop is only now beginning to take shape, but its potential applications are, if anything, even more mind stretching. Already factories are linking up their design and engineering computers to computer-controlled machine tools and robots on the shop floor, and with a push of the button rendering electronic designs into finished products. The ultimate vision is of a "factory of the future," in which everything from ordering parts to packing and shipping out the finished products runs with the smooth, silent pulse of electronic messages moving through computer circuits...