Word: microchip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never think of the future. It comes soon enough." How would the grand seers answer the questions one faces in late 1983: How to maintain the balance of world powers without sacrificing principle or national safety? How to adjust a heavy-industry economy down to the size of a microchip? How to feed the starving, to educate the ignorant? How to reconcile majority rule with minority rights, individualism and democracy, higher law and popular sovereignty? How to create an art of human values in a world of mass culture? None of these questions is posed without a certain amount...
While I appreciate the technology that has enabled us to put a soldier's complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...want to be the banker for the electronics industry," says Roger Smith, Silicon Valley's president. His bank, with headquarters in a San Jose industrial building, will offer services like equipment financing for new companies. High Tech National Bank will go after the microchip money brought home by electronics entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley suburb Los Gatos (pop. 28,000). Local residents include Steven Jobs, 28, chairman of Apple Computer, who is worth an estimated $200 million...
...since the 6th century, with the result that few of the accumulated images that spell "typical Japan" to a foreigner were invented by the Japanese themselves. Zen Buddhism was an import, and pagodas and brush calligraphy and bonsai trees (originally known to the Chinese as penjing). Likewise the microchip and the small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating it every day for pleasure. Even...
...crowded classrooms of the Toho Gakuen school, the technicians are at work, taking the measure of one of Japan's hottest imports. They pore over its structure as carefully as they would over a new automobile design; they grasp it as firmly as they do a microchip or a reflex-camera lens, anticipating the day when their country will be as formidable in this field as it is in so many others. It is not the Three Cs-cameras, computers and cars-that fire their imagination so, but the Three Bs: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms...