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Crichton's authorial persona paradoxically combined a true nerd's fascination with science and technology - he even dabbled in computer programming - with an extreme cautiousness about their uses. Time and again his novels feature overeager scientific researchers, greedy for cash and knowledge, who evade regulation and supervision to open one...
TIME: Alan Greenspan said in recent Congressional hearings that the financial crisis was partly enabled by advances in computer and communications technologies. Do you feel the need to confess?
On the contrary. Computers didn't invent things like flawed program trading - people did. Program trading simply followed algorithms that people wrote. So while a computer may help make dumb decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is...
I'm not going into economic prognostication. But I do think that, in essence, the computer is a tool of productivity, and in typical, traditional downturns in the past, tech has done better than other industries for that reason. The other thing that has happened since the last downturn is...
An embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 sealed the consortium's fate; it was shuttered soon after and replaced by a different set of pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on...