Word: mega
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madness and non-intelligence is not a sufficient answer to the excess intelligence of today's "Mega-Machine," philosopher Lewis Mumford warned last night...
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According to Mumford, the spread of science and technology is creating a "universal, but inadequate society," what he terms the "Mega-Machine." Unlike previous systems of oppression, the Mega-Machine is not based upon a principle of punishment, but on the contrary idea of reward...
...TIME almost always succeeds in reporting events in correct terminology. But your story on the electrical blackout contained a bit of faulty terminology. You said that "the power output surged from 1,500 mega volts to 2,250." Power output is measured in watts or megawatts (millions of watts), not in megavolts. And anyone with a feel for electric power systems would immediately recognize 1,500 megavolts (1,500,000,000 volts) as an impossibly high voltage in any case. TIME was not alone in having this problem. Your account was more accurate from the standpoint of terminology and general...
Actually, Goldwater's estimate had some basis in fact-as far as it went. Goldwater figures that the U.S. Strategic Air Command's estimated 1,080 first-line bombers can carry 24-mega-ton bombs, or, 25,920 megatons of destructive power. He places total megaton capability of U.S. missiles at 2,650. Goldwater assumes that all but about 50 of the SAC planes will have been phased out by the mid-'70s. From Pentagon announcements, furthermore, Goldwater researchers place the mid-'70s missile force at 1,000 Minuteman and 656 Polaris missiles, each capable...