Word: easier
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Today computer buffs are using software in more innovative ways. In addition to doing such mundane tasks as sorting, cataloguing and calculating, a host of new programs are helping make people's lives easier. Some examples...
Since the invention of the primitive hand ax, humanity has turned to tools as a way of making life easier or work more productive. "Man is a tool-using animal," wrote the 19th century Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle. "Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Computer software is only the latest of those tools, and programmers are only beginning to understand the true potential of software. Says Dan Bricklin, chairman of Software Arts: "We're just really getting started. I think that you will see programs coming along in the next few years that...
...makes it easier to change wine lists because we can look up prices at a touch on the computer." Most of the software being sold today still goes into mainframe computers used by corporations or the Government. Banks, airlines and other major data processors last year purchased or leased $11.6 billion worth of programs, according to Input, a market-research firm in Mountain View, Calif...
...situation may be getting worse, "bigotry is not uncommon, but that doesn't make it any easier to wake up to a burning cross in your front yard," said Stevens, in the Mather newsletter...
Officials are breathing easier these days at Cambridge City Hall after putting finishing touches on the $159.3 million fiscal budget for 1985, submitted to the city council this week...