Word: human
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...programming courses in high schools and colleges to make sure they get more. They also have lots of money--about $10 billion. They have ensured their security during this early stage of their development by making themselves indispensable to the advancement of knowledge in almost every field of human endeavor. Indeed, they have caused an explosion of activity. It might almost be said that in creating more work than they have saved, computers have programmed society for their...
Computers have changed everything. They are more responsible for technological warfare than bombs and rockets. Computers control industrial processes, sometimes by making calculations and telling human operators what needs to be done, sometimes by regulating variables on production lines, and sometimes--mainly in the chemical and petroleum business--by running the routine operations of a whole plant. Computers may masquerade as tools, but they are better at cutting out machine tools than humans. They can design bridges, ships, and auto bodies...
...they are partly hamstrung; they can't tell the difference between sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana" and "Time flies like an arrow." But they have created their own languages which people must use to communicate with them, and these computer languages throw light on the mysteries of human speech...
...fore-gone the real world for experimentation in the laboratory have gained exotic accomplishments. A plaque and a trophy sit atop the PDP-6 computer in M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They were won in chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort to any troubled human. You sit at a typewriter keyboard and inform the machine that your father beats you. "I'm glad you mention your home life," the computer replies politely. "You haven't said much about your mother, for instance...
...electric wave which goes from a musical instrument or a recording into the speaker of a sound system can be represented with total accuracy as a sequence of numbers. And since computers can do anything with numbers, they can in principle duplicate not just any sound that the human ear can hear but any sound that can be created. They do it by emitting 20,000 three-digit numbers a second--something no human could ever do--and turning them into an electric wave that can activate a loud-speaker. The computer is a universal instrument limited at present only...