Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past five years much of this mathematical logic has been incorporated into tiny, special-purpose computer chips. Graphics calculations that used to require a $250,000 bank of hardware can now be performed by a single plug-in board. In just the past year the cost of an entry-level 3-D computer has fallen by nearly 70%, to less than $16,000. Within the next five to eight years, predicts Jim Clark, chairman of Silicon Graphics, the leading manufacturer of 3-D workstations, "we'll see the kind of images Tin Toy represents on an ordinary personal computer...
Both Green and Jackson rejected that logic. "You don't accept that one group of people can never be your friends," Green said. "You have to make the effort and it has to be sincere...
...that bad. There is, after all, a certain logic to the free market that assures the best possible... That's exactly the point. Because it does not make ethical judgments, the market cannot be counted on to encourage socially desirable decisions...
...logic behind noise machines escapes me. They eliminate all bothersome noise by creating more bothersome noise of their own. They are like having dying sheep in your bedroom...
...Logic, unfortunately, does not always dictate strategic decisions. Irrational as the fear of a Soviet surprise attack may be, psychological and political reasons alone may push the the U.S. into proceeding with a new mobile missile. As one congressional expert put it, "You can't debate survivability for a decade and then not do anything." It is unlikely that the Senate would ratify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that allowed the Soviets mobile missiles unless the U.S. first decided to acquire a comparable system...