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The Post Office Department plans to install three more of the $260,000 optical scanners in Detroit and two more in Buffalo, with others to follow in major mail centers across the country. Though each optical scanner can do the work of twelve mail clerks, Postmaster General O'Brien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Faster Sort of Mail | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

"This will be the first ideological building in our time dedicated to the rebirth of man," Kiesler declared. Furthermore, as Bartos pointed out, "the scrolls are not visual as a Rembrandt is visual. Only scholars can actually decipher them. It was up to us to say something about them. We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Endless Cave in Jerusalem | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

The ultimate value is the mingling of the professional artist, with his intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Artist on the Campus | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

A Dynamic Alliance. Without the present generation of computers, man could never hope to reach the moon. The development of jet planes would have been delayed for many years. There would be no ballistic missiles or Polaris submarines. Scholars would still be struggling to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Cybernated Generation | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

The problem with having a machine for a buddy, of course, is that it does not make a very good conversationalist -but the scientists are busy fixing that. Until now computer experts could only communicate with their machines in one of 1,700 special languages, such as COBOL (Common Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Cybernated Generation | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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