Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electronic sorcery works, and examines its impact on our daily lives. To make such a complicated technical phenomenon understandable, a team of six correspondents, five writers, four reporter-researchers and three photographers spent a month interviewing scientists, visiting manufacturing plants and trying out the newest and most exciting computerized products...
...occasions civil libertarians have beaten down proposals for national computerized data banks (on tax and census information). Each time they successfully invoked fears of 1984-style invasion of privacy by electronic technology. "Public opinion is aroused when a central computer is proposed," says A.C.L.U. Privacy Project Director Trudy Hayden. "But this time, they're starting small, matching two little computer lists, affecting only the poor and the weak...
"BUGS." Last month the Pentagon warned defense contractors to be wary of what they said in messages carried by commercial satellites because the Soviets are listening to every word. Using innocent-looking vans or "ferret" satellites or balloon-supported towlines, trailing from submarines, that act as 2,000-ft. antennas...
Of course the Soviets have had their share of intelligence failures. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the KGB failed to detect Israeli preparations for crossing the Suez Canal, and underestimated the maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that...
By early last month, NORAD's computer analysis placed the probable re-entry point at somewhere over North America. On Jan. 12, Brzezinski opened the diplomatic dialogue by summoning to the White House Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, a former aerodynamicist who knew exactly what was at stake. Brzezinski politely...