Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commentary on male sexuality. One caller, a father, listens to his sadistic domestic fantasy while babysitting his children. A janitor asks for two operators to act out his pedophile tendencies. One caller repeatedly threatens Girl 6's life by telling her that he will suffocate her with a plastic bag. Their pitiful requests for sexual satisfaction are combined with pleas for female submission, while the phone sex operators respond with simulated interest...
...things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human. It's a vaguely person-shaped concoction of metal, plastic and silicon, with cameras where its eyes should be and eight 32-bit microprocessors for a brain. Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world the way babies do, programming and reprogramming itself through interactions with the people and objects around it. And Brooks...
...will be mind boggling," Hudler says. For his part, Midwest president Houser must meet state regulations limiting the amount of nitrates and other manure products that leach into the soil. Among other things, the company plans to line the 30 lagoons that will contain hog wastes with heavy plastic sheeting designed to prevent the fetid brew from oozing into the aquifer. But Travis is still holding his nose. Says he: "We're not giving up until we can be convinced that there will be minimal impact." As minimal an impact as 450,000 pigs can make...
WOODY ALLEN WALKS offstage with a bemused look on his face. In one hand, he holds a clarinet; in the other, a bizarre, cube-shaped plastic sculpture that some fan placed at his feet in lieu of flowers. "That audience was amazing," he says. "They were so sweet. They were bathing us in affection." To prove the feeling is mutual, he heads back out into the spotlight. Some 2,000 Parisians are on their feet, clapping, screaming, chanting, "Wooo-DEE! Wooo-DEE!" Incredible as it seems, Allen--who treats New York City audiences like wallpaper at his weekly...
Mathers added that the Science Center skylights are made of Lexan, a super-strong plastic used to make bulletproof windows