Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo for "The Computer Society" [Feb. 20]. The rapid advance of technology might be a more frightening phenomenon if man's ability to change and adapt were not what put us in this position in the first place!
I fail to see how a computer society will enrich the lives of its people. Increased leisure time is already a problem in the U.S. Who would actively, physically participate in a sport or hobby when a computer could do it all for you? Might not life become unbearably boring...
Robert Jastrow's Essay, "Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man's," is based on the claim that "in the 1990s ... the reasoning power of computers ... will begin to match that of the human brain." At no research laboratory that I know is there evidence for such a projection. Twenty...
Computer to Computer Communications--Oswald H. Garley, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Advanced and Applied Technical Affairs, Department of State, Alken 241, 4 p.m.