Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Draper's successor, effective January 1, will be Charles L. Miller, the 40-year-old chairman of M. I. T.'s department of Civil Engineering, who has pioneered the application of computer methodology to urban systems.
"Every invention in the course of history," Darlington says, "from the first right down to the present-day computer, has required a mental effort to exploit it. It has therefore exerted a selective pressure against the less intelligent. This pressure has been responsible for the evolutionary improvement of the human...
It is probably too much to expect that the military could return to the casual, off-the-cuff talk as a substitute for the prepared briefing. To begin with, the Army would no doubt have as much trouble disposing of all its audio-visual gadgets as it has dumping its...
That kind of McLuhanesque gadget might seem to be the ultimate in efficiency, but its acceptance by the military epitomizes the failure of briefings. Even without benefit of computer, the armed-services style of communication has become a ritual recitation of memorized details, a reduction of experience to a set...
Few airlines or their passengers are happy with the tangled fare structure on North Atlantic routes. Travelers can be charged any one of more than 100 different fares to fly to the same city-depending upon their age and occupation, the starting point, the time of day or any one...