Word: laser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some for himself. The whole place suits...
...businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate the irregularities of hand weaving. Insurance companies offer a variety of policies that would not have been possible before the arrival of computers. Even salami is cut precisely with equipment guided by microprocessors...
Since even overnight delivery may not be fast enough for a country hooked on speed, Federal Express has now developed ZapMail. To send ZapMail, a customer summons a Federal courier to pick up documents, which are then sent by facsimile transmission to another Federal Express office. There a laser printer spews out copies that are hand delivered. Elapsed time: two hours. Under development for five years with the code name Gemini Project, the $100 million electronic-mail venture got off to a slow start in July. Federal cut the price of sending 20 pages of information in half, from...
...audiophiles, the Coop is boasting the newest in Panasonic laser disc players--at last count 10 of the nation's 100 units had been beamed to the mercantile hub of Harvard Square, Argeros said...
Mazda's U.S. venture will bring it closer to Ford, which already owns 25% of the company. The Mazda GLC sedan is marketed by Ford in Australia and New Zealand as the Laser. The proposed Michigan plant will probably put 3,500 people to work in an area of high unemployment. By the end of 1988, the factory could be turning out vehicles at the rate of 240,000 annually. Ford is expected to buy some of the cars and may put the Mustang name plate on them. Fast-growing Mazda has been crimped by import restraints that limit...