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To Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities?the dynamo and the digital computer?had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

In each cluster, the Montana seismometers are set like spokes in a wheel, and at the center of each wheel is a small vault housing instruments for collecting the seismic signals. After the signals are picked up and amplified, they are translated into digital data and transmitted over telephone lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: Nuclear Listening Post | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Although the first three pictures have already been released, no decision has been made on the publication of the rest of the shots. Under extremely close security, JPL picture experts are now poring over the fine print of the digital data and putting each picture through five or six different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: The Full Picture from Mars | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Turning Heart. Still, for many tense hours last week, the overriding question at JPL control was not Mariner's confirmed scientific coups but what it had done during the photo sequence. The suspense ended when Mariner broke its silence on schedule and began playing back the bits of digital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Portrait of a Planet | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Baffling Blend. Much of the apprehension about the social effects of the computer arises from the machine's baffling blend of complication and simplicity. Basically, the digital computer is nothing but an electronic machine that can do arithmetic and retrieve information with incredible speed-but that very speed makes...

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

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