Word: pipedreams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robot air fleet is no technological pipedream. Although the U.S. has long used drones for target practice and spy missions, it is only relatively recently that miniaturized computers, tiny remote-controlled TV cameras, sophisticated laser-guided "smart bombs" and other breakthroughs in electro-optical gear have made RPVs both technologically and economically feasible for combat. The U.S.'s most widely used fighter-bomber, the F-4 Phantom, for example, costs $3.6 million; an RPV capable of the same missions, according to some experts, probably could be built for about $250,000 because the plane would not require such expensive...
...idea is still something of a pipedream. But as New York City's problems multiply, its residents increasingly resent the spectacle of their elected officials pleading with smalltown legislators for permission to change the shift schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
Shulman's invention is just a bit more than a pipedream. The human brain insistently finds patterns where none exist. With this in mind, Shulman built his toy, a circular arrangement of Christmas-tree lights. Plugged in, they flash on and off in colors-red, yellow and blue-but in no rhythmic pattern. Still, the mesmerized viewer, if he turns on some music, may discover a pattern that matches the music's beat. If that happens, off he goes on a drugless trip. Or so hope the customers who ordered some 5,000 Op-Tickles, which are grossly...