Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles, Atlantic Richfield Co. is designing a complete "teleconferenceing" network so that key company employees can confer with one another visually by use of satellite hook-and wall-sized projection screens. Starting in 1982, executives in Philadelphia or Dallas will not have to fly to Los Angeles for their regular weekly meeting. Instead they will walk to a room equipped for a teleconference. The system, part of a $20 million company-wide communications effort, is expected to save the company $50 million to $60 million annually in travel costs...
Many companies are even working to hook up their so-called smart machines so that they can communicate with each other. One such arrangement might allow a company executive to dictate a memo into a smart dictating machine that will then distribute it, electronically, to offices around the world. Copiers linked to teleprinters would print and duplicate the memo, route it internally as well as "file" it in the electronic memory banks of field office computers...
...born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates the market for so-called integrated information systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower, and the applications are getting wider...
John and Martha Hook live 29 miles north of Pittsburgh in the small indus trial town of Butler, where he works as a radio station engineer. They have been registered Democrats all their lives and both voted for Carter in 1976 because, in John's words, "Ford pardoned Nixon." But they feel let down by the President. Says Martha: "It takes every penny we have for food and the doctor." The hostage issue rankles with John: "Carter should have had them out of there right away." And Carter has compounded his problem with the Hooks by his campaign tactics...
...hook worked its way in deeper when Carl also stumbled into science fiction. He was especially taken with the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote of sensuous princesses, six-legged beasts of burden, evil warlords and a Virginia gentleman named John Carter, who miraculously transported himself to the Red Planet simply by gazing at it. The dark-eyed youngster, looking up at the night sky from a Brooklyn lot, tried vainly to follow his hero into space. It was a dream that Sagan has never forgotten. Phobos, the name of one of the moons of Mars, now appears...