Word: ci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made to think, as HAL seemed to be doing in 2001, when it murdered the astronauts who might challenge its command of the spaceflight. That answer is simple: computers do not think, but they do simulate many of the processes ci the human brain: remembering, comparing, analyzing. And as people rely on the computer to do things that they used to do inside their heads, what happens to their heads...
...book is more like a sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government and business to make faster and better decisions. What of the Big Brother potential? He admits...
...specifics. His futurology appears to be identifying a group as yet unborn. Perhaps "neoliberal" is simply a term invented to oppose "neo-conservative." The derisive use of "symbolists" suggests that the author himself does not communicate in symbols. He does. What, in fact, are words and pseudomathematical formulations like CI...