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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Fewer and fewer people are related to jobs that they can identify with," says he. "They see no connection between what they do on the job and what comes out at the end." They spend their lives isolated behind typewriters and computer consoles. Gyllenhammar worries that company chiefs expect the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Ideas from a Matchmaker | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and chairman of the subcommittee on the Core Curriculum, told the Faculty that almost 100 students will have taken experimental Core computer mini-courses by the end of the semester. These non-credit courses are designed to teach students how...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and Burton F. Jablin, S | Title: Rosovsky Says National Economic Ills Will Cause Problems for Faculty Budget | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

The powerful element of fantasy in Space Invaders is the focus at which the computer technicians, the toy manufacturers and the games theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Bernie De Koven, 38, is the game designer for Ideal Toys, makers of last year's big-selling Electronic Detective-similar to Stop Thief, this year's Parker Bros, entry. His office is cluttered-a creative mulch of dolls' heads, car wheels, batteries, record-player motors, computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Presumably the computer children will retain some links with society. In any case, if the silicon-chip industry can gear up its production to meet the insatiable demands of the toymakers, the computer-synthesized siren songs heard by flesh-and-blood members of the population are sure to become even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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