Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the computer, but in his worst-case imaginings he sees a government that would possess one immense, interconnecting computer system: Big Brother. The alternative is obviously to isolate government computers from one another, to decentralize them, to prevent them from possibly becoming dictatorial. But that would require considerable foresight, sophistication?and possibly a tough new variety of civil rights legislation...
...together just a few small parts; only his elaborate drawings provide a clue to his visionary machine. Indeed, when Harvard and IBM scientists rediscovered Babbage's work in the 1940s while they were building a pioneering electromechanical digital computer called Mark I, they were astonished by his foresight. Said the team leader, Howard Aiken: "If Babbage had lived 75 years later, I would have been...
...state decision holds, it would not be just lack of foresight for which the University would pay; it would also be lack of sensitivity to the health concerns of the community that would be affected by its $110 million boondoggle...
Kodak lawyers contended that the company had reached its pre-eminent position in the industry through skill, foresight and creative research. Far from being an invulnerable monopoly, lawyers claimed, Kodak was losing market share in pocket cameras, photographic paper and photo-finishing products. Said the lawyers: "In cameras, the competition is simply amazing...
...beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working on the assumption that lack of foresight would have devastating world-wide repercussions, Toffler said he felt he had a "moral duty" to sound the alarm...