Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The machine clearly does not like poetry. It won't touch the stuff. Nor is it very fond of novels. Theoretically, it could cope with some of Hemingway's short, simple sentences, though it could never make anything of long, convoluted passages from Faulkner. But give the Toshiba AS-TRANSAC...
The photographs of the victims were assembled and logged by assistant picture editor Richard Boeth. Nation head researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo spent most of nine weeks tracking the information on her computer. "I felt sadness for the wasted lives," she says, "and eventually an outrage that we allow so...
Similar concerns have arisen in other nations as well. To calm public protest, a Canadian utility proposed buying all the homes along a 90-mile power line that is under construction. But residents became so upset that the government ordered a halt to work on a segment of the line...
The concerns have some justification. Last month the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment issued a report concluding that power lines are a legitimate health issue. More troubling, it suggested that household wiring, appliances like toasters and electric blankets, and such items as TV sets and computer terminals, all of which...
"At home, I'm getting an education that is very professional, very narrow," she said. "That's why I'm very unsatisfied, because computer science is only one of the things I wanted to study."