Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of...
Cage's lectures are readings of strings of phrases randomly assembled by computer out of sources Cage selects. The program is based on the "I Ching" principle, taken from an ancient Chinese text on the mechanisms of chance.
As if he were playing with a child's Erector Set, the crane operator maneuvers a ladle filled with 230 tons of molten iron toward a giant furnace and pours into its maw a glowing glob of 3000 degrees F metal. After 45 minutes in the oxygen-fired furnace, the...
The third of six speeches of its kind to be given this year, the lecture was written with the help of a computer program that allows Cage to discover meaning in random word pairings.
Cage has described himself as a "mushroom hunter" seeking valuable ideas in the arbitrary combinations spit out by the IC computer program.