Word: decipherability
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Literacy once meant the ability to read and write, and perhaps acquire familiarity with, say, Paradise Lost. Today, children who cannot even decipher a limerick are becoming what is known as "computer literate." Just as Gutenberg's press stimulated literacy in the 15th century, the emergence of the low...
The exhibition offers that desire in all its facets. It shows itself to spectacular effect in the obsessed, lyrical mysticism of Runge, a painter who was perhaps the closest equivalent to William Blake that Germany ever produced. In Runge the world is imagined in extreme detail, near and far, as...
Senate Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island is expected to re-introduce a bill this week that would make some such changes in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Chafee lauds the law as an "important step toward the objective of prohibiting bribery of foreign government officials." But he also says...
Although TV has come to dominate and manipulate U.S. politics, much the way it dominates sports and entertainment, the shrewdest politicians have found that it is perfectly possible to decipher the camera's needs and then take advantage of them. TV enables a politician to elude all the controls...
Now that robots have proved efficient and economical, the main effort is to create "smart" robots and thus give them an ability to make decisions. To become smarter, robots are learning to "see" and "touch," and report to their computer brains what their new senses tell them. To see means...