Word: computerizing
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A third reason for the relative paucity of RSI in clerical work is that, in the past, not everybody went into the secretarying (or scrivening) business. If one couldn t type for long periods of time without pain then one chose a different profession. Now, however-and increasingly as figures...
Dr. Chris Coley is the closest thing there is to an authority on RSI (or, to be technically correct, RSIs; RSI is, in the words of a Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group handout, "an umbrella term for a variety of injuries: tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, etc.") at...
But why not secretaries? Indeed, a skeptic at the most recent RSI Action meeting wondered just that. Secretaries have been taking dictation, dashing off letters, typing out memoes and generally making their living by typing for over a hundred years. Why haven t they reported RSIs? One explanation is that...
Video games like Doom (in which players gain points by stalking and mutilating the enemy) probably did little to placate the hostility and aggression brewing within the two disturbed students. Yet computer graphics were far from the only impetus for the Columbine massacre. The more we learn about the assailants...
Since last week's release of Windows Two Billion, many people have complained about the exploding computer problem, in which PCs with Windows Two Billion self-destruct upon shutdown.