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...their responsibility for national aberrations onto others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation at the Versailles summit to mask their own economic failures by launching massive attacks against the U.S. policy of high-interest rates. It is therefore not necessary to possess the gift of foresight to predict that the meeting of the leaders of the seven most important democratic industrial nations will again end with wordy and reassuring declarations of intent, instead of with clear and forward-looking decisions...
...people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler's satire Erewhon (1872), the citizens establish a museum of old machines in which they at once deposit and abandon their mechanical inventions, which they believed would swallow up their souls. When machines possess artificial intelligence, like computers, the human fear of being overtaken seems both more urgent and more complex. Science-fiction writers from Capek to Asimov have built much of their genre around robots, androids, computers and their kin-each fairly boring and predictable as characters, but all presenting the same basic...
...order to see that the wizened, noncomputer generation-which often regards the younger with the unbridled enthusiasm that the Chinese showed the Mongol hordes-feels that it has a safe and legitimate place in modernity. In part, the effort is made because the proposition is true: a computer cannot possess the full range of human intelligence. Yet, in terms of reconciling man and machine, this effort still misses the point. The cultural value of computers does not lie in perceiving what they cannot do, but what they can, and what, in turn, their capabilities show about our own. In other...
Others who are more sophisticated stopped short of directly accusing the Israeli government of countenancing the assualt, but pointed to it as evidence that Israel does not possess the capability of safeguarding the holy sites. True, Goodman did slip by but one incident in over fifteen years in a system of open access-is not a bad record...
...scenes. Murphy implicitly suggests the conventional answer; they should not for publicity of judicial meddling could undermine the prestige of the Court and the rule of law. But never does he effectively counter the opposite argument: that judges many of whom rose from the political ranks themselves, often possess more political acumen and vision than election-hungry politicians...