Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computers ... will begin to match that of the human brain." At no research laboratory that I know is there evidence for such a projection. Twenty years ago, computer conversion of spoken words to typed text was "around the corner." Today we are still unable to duplicate this simple human function, let alone reasoning. We cannot say that such things will never happen. We can say, however, that we have no scientific basis for forecasting the merger of human and machine intelligences at any time, let alone in ten or 1,000 years...
Stendahl also proposes an increase in the exposure to quantitative skills given to students interested in the ministry. In this year's report, he says the representative function requires the theoretical and practical skills for institutional leadership, critique and planning. It is at that point that I see the need for a higher competence in quantitative skills and modes of thinking...
...more unfortunate aspects of the Core proposal is the method by which it is being discussed and adopted. Harvard's administrators like to function in quiet, low-profile fashion, tinkering with the system but largely failing to consult the students--whom their plans will affect. True to form, the Core proposal has arrived with a minimum of student input. It is strangely presumptuous--almost insulting--to ask undergraduates to buy the idea that only a small number of Faculty members know enough about Harvard's problems to be able to suggest a replacement for the current system. The Faculty should...
...course, on a more basic level, people seem to agree on what education means. One must know how to read, one must understand the rudiments of the rationalistic-scientific consciousness that pervades modern societies, one must learn the basic responsibilities of citizenship in order to be able to function as a member of society...
Yeah, like Haldeman, the second most powerful man in the country, kept out any ideas of a better society from his job. Like he says, all he was there for was "simply to enable the President to function most effectively." Haldeman and Ehrlichman were advance men; their only vision of society came from managing campaigns and advertising accounts. Haldeman's biggie at J. Walter Thompson was Black Flag--he didn't mind anybody eradicating people who were pestering Nixon...