Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Gospel & a Prophet. In Huron, disaster piled on disaster. The dust was followed by tornadoes of grasshoppers that ate the paint off the houses; the wells ran dry and the trees died. Another winter of the Great Depression settled on the world, and Hubert Humphrey listened on his radio...
In the wind-lashed North Sea, at least two ships met disaster. One, the small Dutch coaster Bermuda, capsized while being towed to safety. Her crew of five was lost.
Machines have already been built that can learn by experience. Taught to play checkers, some modern computers have learned, after only 20 hours of play, to beat the man who programed them. When the machines get a little brighter, they may learn economic games, such as figuring out the production...