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...newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads-even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the optical scanner, it operates roughly on the principle of the human eye, has already earned the obvious Orwellian nickname...
...collection of condensed novels, such as those issued by Reader's Digest, belonging in this class for the same reason that a beef bouillon cube...
...Examiner last week: BOYD'S CAMPING JAUNT EXPOSED. Below, the Examiner reported that the Boyds had disappeared, jubilantly printed a description of their primitive campsite: "Kitchen matches. Shells from fresh eggs. Empty cans which once contained spaghetti. Watermelon rinds. July issue of the Reader's Digest. So much toilet tissue that some of it had been used to start a fire." The Examiner cautiously refrained from drawing any snide conclusions. But the evening News-Call Bulletin, jointly owned by Hearst and Scripps-Howard, was less kind: "The Examiner published voluminous type and pictures to imply that Boyd...
...around the nation, Tech Ops has joined with United Aircraft to develop a semi-automatic weather forecasting network for the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Agency and the Weather Bureau at a cost of more than $100 million. Linking a series of computers in major cities, it will digest temperature, pressure and cloud formation data, come up with speedy and accurate forecasts...
...Martian weather, soil, vegetation and earth tremors, the information that it would gather might be bottlenecked forever by its slow-acting transmitter. Then, says Van Allen, will be the time "when it will be more efficient to send up a man or a party of men to make observations, digest them and transmit back what is roughly equivalent to a monograph on the subject." Only half facetiously. Van Allen has one more idea about the advan tages of men over instruments in space: "There are many more subtle things that a man could report, such as 'Gee whiz...