Word: human
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...their ingenuity, TIME'S electronic machines still lack the human touch-the skills of writing, editing and analyzing that are really responsible for this week's look at the Computer Society...
Others around town may be more brilliant, eloquent or forceful than Califano, but he is on the verge of becoming the most capable. True, the time is right for him and those very human problems in which he deals. But it is also true that he is something special. He cares. "I want to show people that these social programs can be run right, that they can help those who need help," he says."I want to show people that you can manage this place...
...force and significance associated with the development of hand tools or the discovery of the steam engine. Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from men's muscles and enormously expanded productivity, so the microcomputer is rapidly assuming huge burdens of drudgery from the human brain and thereby expanding the mind's capacities in ways that man has only begun to grasp. With the chip, amazing feats of memory and execution become possible in everything from automobile engines to universities and hospitals, from farms to banks and corporate offices, from outer space to a baby...
Those outside the electronic priesthood often have trouble grasping the principles of the new microtechnology or comprehending the accomplishments of the minuscule computers. The usual human sense of scale, the proportion between size and capability, the time ratio assumed between thought and action, are swept into a new and surreal terrain. Consequently, people tend to anthropomorphize the computer; they are superstitious about it. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the companionable computer HAL turns rogue in outer space and methodically begins assassinating its masters. In a B-movie called Demon Seed, the world's most advanced computer actually impregnates a scientist...
...million in military aid which goes to the regime. But two months later, after heavy pressuring from professional lobbyists hired by Somoza, the committee reversed its vote. The State Department did decide, however, to withhold $12 million in economic assistance to the Somoza government. Admittedly, the President's human rights stand has sparked the emergence of outspoken opposition. And the increasing attacks on Somoza recently appearing in to the columns of Jack Anderson, in The New York Times and The Washington Post have seriously undermined any support the dictator may have enjoyed in this country...