Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...users across the nation have nearly simultaneous access to a central computer complex by teletype hookup. At M.I.T., Project MAC (for Machine-Aided Cognition) is already solving problems, answering questions and keeping books on an experimental basis for some 400 users. Scientists who know MAC's language can feed their problems to the computer from typewriter-like keyboards in their own homes or labs. Thus, computers will eventually become as close to everyday life as the telephone-a sort of public utility of information...
...want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of tax eaters...
Last week Pat finally went home. She could manage a few words and she could feed herself with her left hand. With her right she tried the first tentative caressing movements when baby Ophelia, ten months old, was put in her bed. She was already trying to learn to walk again. Her obstetrician thought there was a good chance that she would even fulfill her ambition of enlarging her family by carrying to term the baby which she intends to have delivered in England. At week's end though her speech was still limited, Pat Dahl was able...
...Wolbricht take the easy course and turn Anton over to the authorities? Certainly not: he is honest. At great trouble to himself, he smuggles the boy to the country in a crate and leaves him alone in a mountain cabin with a three-week supply of food. Anton cannot feed himself, of course, being paralytic, but that is not Wolbricht's problem. Thinking well of himself, he returns to the city to sell the apartment lease. But what's this? A bump on his forehead the size of a pigeon's egg. Wolbricht presses the bump...
...conversations, machines and desks and time clocks." He fails to note that culturally advantaged children born into that idyllic world frequently find it unsatisfactory, or downright repulsive. And he does not reflect on what a fully automated, fully rationalized world will be like. Of course it is necessary to feed and house people before attending to the neuroses of the well-fed and well-housed. But the wide psychological impact of automation cannot be isolated from its immediate material benefits, and the humane social planner must worry about both...