Word: dyson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today they are outnumbered by a new breed of consumer: the computer naive. These first-time customers are more cautious, less technically sophisticated and less convinced that computers will change their lives. By and large, they are right. "For the new consumer, the stuffs been oversold," says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter. "The technology is still too hard...
...Blue, as IBM is nicknamed for its corporate color, had previously said it would not seek control of the smaller company. On another front, IBM introduced two lines of business software for personal computers and thus stormed into a field that has been dominated by small firms. Said Esther Dyson, editor of the industry newsletter RELease 1.0: "IBM wants it all and needs it all. The company has a biological urge to grow...
WEAPONS AND HOPE by Freeman Dyson; Harper & Row; 334 pages...
...Yorker Writer Jonathan Schell sets out from the moralist camp and Physicist Freeman Dyson from the rationalist camp in search of common ground...
Both see the current balance of terror-"offense-dominated nuclear deterrence"-as the moral equivalent of slavery and call for its abolition. Hence the 19th century resonance of Schell's title, The Abolition, and Dyson's description of the nuclear arsenal in Weapons and Hope as "a manifestly evil institution deeply embedded in the structure of our society." Hence also the common weakness in their arguments: slavery, whatever it may have meant to the economy and social order of nations, had little to do with their security; nuclear weapons, however perverse the argument for having them, are intimately...