Word: displayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general calls out a command. At his side, a "display specialist" punches one button, then another; his fingers race across his varicolored panel filled with the flashing lights of disaster (see oppo site page). An outline map of the North American continent is traced in light across a large screen. Near the top, along the rim of the Arctic Ocean, clusters of lights - signifying hostile missiles - begin to move perceptibly southward...
...trouble. Those computers, with their intricate mix of sophisticated electronic aids, represent a new generation of automated information. Data from a BMEWS station in Alaska, for example, or a message from a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane, is fed into the banked computer memory drums and onto the glowing display consoles without ever passing through human hands or brains. So fast are some of the systems, they work in what scientists and engineers call "real time." Between the observation of an event, its digestion by the computers and its display for the staff in the COCpit, there is an insignificant delay...
...NORAD officer with a significant combination of symbols built up on his console can transmit his "display" to any other console screen in the center or, within seconds, have it projected on the large screen for everyone to see. By pointing a narrow beam from a light gun at an area of particular interest on his console screen, an operator can enlarge that area 16-fold or cause it to flash on and off on other screens to alert the rest of the staff...
Smart pawnbrokers spotted the trend a few years ago and set about changing their image. Manhattan's Kaskel's, which now calls itself a "loan broker," looks more like a high-fashion department store with its mink-draped mannequins and velvet-lined jewelry display cases. "We have customers who earn as much as $250,000 a year, and the majority earn more than $10,000," boasts Owner Richard Kaskel...
...JUNE PAIK, 33, a Korean, is a devotee of Composer John Cage, and his primary ambition was to compose far-out sounds. Electronic music inspired him to make electronic art, just as the Russian composer Scriabin made a motorized light display to accompany his Prometheus half a century ago. Now living in New York City, Paik buys up old television sets, scrambles the images they receive with electromagnetic coils and magnets. The results are a vertigo of discombobulated images, an early show of what kinetic art might become. "There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one TV screen...