Word: computerize
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Working-class TV may draw in viewers with the sensational promise of danger. (In Ax Men, computer animation shows what would happen if a logger got speared by a falling branch.) But underneath that is the scary reality, not unique to drillers and fishermen, of surviving boom-and-bust capitalism...
As part of the team that created the first electronic digital computer, which weighed 30 tons, Arthur Burks helped usher in the modern technological age. ENIAC (for electronic numerical integrator and computer) was invented at the University of Pennsylvania as a replacement for the 75 women who were calculating trajectories...
Stanford economists have demonstrated that the average value of a year of quality human life is actually closer to about $129,000. To get to that number, Stefanos Zenios and his colleagues at Stanford Graduate School of Business used kidney dialysis as a benchmark. Every year dialysis saves the lives...
So where's video dial tone? I'd love to subscribe to a service that gives me any TV show or movie I want, for a flat fee. But most of the services that tackle this problem want me to either "rent" downloadable video - typically for a day or two...
And then there's the possibility, albeit remote in the eyes of many observers, that Chavez might be right - that the laptops themselves might not be authentic. Interpol chief Richard Noble said he was "absolutely certain" that the computers "came from a FARC terrorist camp." But technically, all that Interpol...