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...even left Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, he is loudly assaulted by the city's pride in itself: "Awakens as a world leader," says one postcard, among the "American-Made Collectors' Souvenirs and Spoons" in an airport gift shop, and another calls it ''a competitor's paradise." Terminal videos instruct you on how to invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star on the Rise," as the logo...
...SEASONS INSTRUCT...
...Seasons instruct us, then, in a subtler way of being; they initiate us into a process more universal than the new year (which is, after all, celebrated at one time in Chinatown and another time in midtown), and more flexible than moons. All of us have our own calendars (April 15 means taxes, and next Thursday is Cindy's birthday), and all of us think in terms of spring cleaning or fall fashions. But seasons induct us into a world of divisions that are never hard and fast (soft and slow, rather); they offer lessons about constancy and flux...
...Chalmers, the robot named Cog, being developed at M.I.T.'s artificial-intelligence lab with input from Dennett (see following story). Cog will someday have "skin"--a synthetic membrane sensitive to contact. Upon touching an object, the skin will send a data packet to the "brain." The brain may then instruct the robot to recoil from the object, depending on whether the object could damage the robot. When human beings recoil from things, they too are under the influence of data packets. If you touch something that's dangerously hot, the appropriate electrical impulses go from hand to brain, which then...
...real changes come with developing. Magnetic codes on the film will instruct photo-processing equipment to correct for errors like insufficient light and will automatically record camera settings. Instead of messy negatives, you get back the tidy little film cartridge--negatives inside--plus a sheet of thumbnail prints to use as a guide for duplicates...