Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospitals, computers are programmed not only to remind the pharmacy department to prepare prescriptions but also to alert nurses to give the proper dosage at the right time. After a physician examines a patient at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a report, including lab test results, is logged into a data bank. One of the hospital's more than 100 terminals will then handle the patient's history in an intelligible language infelicitously named MUMPS (an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System...
...Continental Mark Vs an option called "miles to empty." At the push of a button, the driver can get a readout on the amount of fuel in the tank, and the number of miles he can expect to go (at current speed) before a refill is necessary. Drivers of General Motors' 1978 Cadillac Seville will also be able to punch a button and find out the miles yet to go to a preset destination and the estimated arrival time. The ultimate auto will make the solid gold Cadillac look leaden. It will accommodate a pencil-size portable phone capable...
...took to the computer more eagerly or saw its usefulness more quickly than the businessman. Now, 24 years after General Electric became the first company to acquire a computer, these versatile machines have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be buried under the blizzard of 35 billion checks that rain down on them annually, and economists trying to project the growth of the nation's $2 trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo...
Automobiles. Last year Detroit bought only about $2 million worth of chips, but by the early 1980s the auto industry is expected to become a more than $1 billion market in its own right. At General Motors, chips are already at work regulating the ignition systems of Olds Tornados. GM President Elliott Estes estimates that by 1988 fully 90% of his company's cars will contain even more elaborate electronically controlled ignition systems. Though a computer in every car is still a couple of years away, both Ford and GM last year signed separate long-term contracts with Motorola...
...procession of limousines crammed the White House driveway last Friday, as 50 of the most powerful leaders of U.S. business accepted an invitation for an off-the-record exchange of views with ranking Administration officials. Among them were the chiefs of Exxon, General Electric, Du Pont, Merrill Lynch, National Steel, B.F. Goodrich and Boeing. The Administration was engaged in one of the most ambitious public relations campaigns to be aimed at the business community since Lyndon Johnson's day. The goals: to build support for Carter's tax package and to reassure business leaders, who have been unimpressed...