Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simulation has come a long way in the 60 years since Edwin Link, the father of the technology, first used organ bellows and a suspended box to approximate the motion of an airplane in flight. The box has evolved into an instrument-crammed capsule equipped with color video and stereo sound. The bellows has been replaced by electronically controlled hydraulic actuators. And the illusion of motion has become so powerful that it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Moreover, with a few minor changes, the same technology has been used to simulate everything from spaceships to submarines, from armored tanks...
...earthbound machine can fully duplicate the dives or turns of a plane in flight. But it turns out that a person does not need to be flying through space to feel as if he were. The human body responds not so much to motion as to acceleration, what the experts call "onset cues." By rapidly extending or retracting its hydraulic legs, a simulator can effectively create the sensation of a sudden pitch...
Allowing for future change gives such an education its inherent humility. It self-consciously confesses its own powerlessness in the face of a civilization in perpetual motion and does not pretend to teach us what we "need" to know...
...tennis court, Arthur Ashe calls it the "zone." Jimmy Connors says the / ball grows to the size of a watermelon. By myriad accounts, the streaker's game, whatever the game, seems to be played in slow motion. Wayne Gretzky speaks of hockey that way. At the height of his batting powers, Ted Williams claimed he was able to read the spinning labels on 78-r.p.m. recordings. Pete Rose could count the stitches on a curving baseball. To Race Driver Jackie Stewart, nothing in the world seemed as serenely slow as a car responding well at 200 m.p.h...
...watched numbers at the high end of the dial -- "cable Siberia," as some call it. Viewers have little recourse against such moves because in most communities there is only one cable company to choose from. "There is only one funnel to the TV home," Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, told a House telecommunications subcommittee hearing. "If you are unhappy with your cable system, you have no forum where your grievance can be addressed . . . You either...