Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter and certain Congressmen, obsessed by civil rights and aided by sensation-ridden media, have restricted the FBI and CIA [Feb. 6] so severely that these agencies are crippled in warning the U.S. of impending danger...
...ozone layer acts as a shield for the earth, blocking harmful amounts of ultraviolet radiation. McElroy was among the first to postulate that man-made propellants, such as freon in aerosal sprays, are a primary danger to the ozone layer...
...just that the systems might break down; the remedy for that could eventually be provided by a number of back-up systems. Besides, industrialized man is already vulnerable to serious dislocations by breakdowns?when the electrical power of New York City goes out, for example. Perhaps a greater danger, says Weizenbaum, lies in the fact that "a computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." The machines can break loose from human intentions. Computers, he argues, are infinitely literal-minded; they exercise no judgments, have no values...
Ironically, the industry's prodigious ability to produce the chips is also its Achilles' heel; the danger that chip makers could eventually produce far more and far more powerful chips than the market can absorb is real. By 1985, according to C. Lester Hogan, vice chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., it will be feasible to build a pocket calculator "that will be more powerful than, and almost as fast as," the $9 million Cray-1, built by Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and recognized as the mightiest computer in the world...
...greater danger to U.S. businessmen is that they may not be able to keep pace with the product innovations made possible by the miracle chips. For example, while the color-television industry was pioneered by a U.S. firm, RCA, American companies were slow to realize the revolutionary impact that transistors and semiconductors were destined to have. As a result, the market was opened to lower-priced foreign models that exploited the new technology. Given that first foothold, Japanese manufacturers have ever since been a growing threat to the U.S. color-TV industry...