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...fundamental reservation Harvard has centers on the problem of multiplying and fragmented bargaining units. Currently, all 3500 or so clerical and technical workers share the same benefit structure, and administrators predict an uneven distribution of benefits if District 65 succeeds...
Homans, who voted in favor of the measure at the CUE meeting could not predict whether the Faculty would favor the motion...
...workers already paint cars, assemble refrigerators, drill aircraft wings, mine coal and, for that matter, wash windows; newer robots now on the drawing boards will soon be spraying crops with pesticides, digging up minerals deep under the oceans and repairing satellites in outer space. Not too far off, experts predict, is that landmark day when robots will begin designing and then building other robots. "The human race," according to James...
...from, among others, Harvard and M.I.T. Giants like IBM and Texas Instruments are weighing the advantages of getting in on the prospective bonanza. Overall, the fledgling U.S. robot industry is producing about 1,500 units per year and is projecting sales of $90 million this year. Wall Street analysts predict a growth on the order of 35% a year throughout the 1980s. That gives the industry a sales potential of more than $2 billion by 1990. Boosters talk of $4 billion...
...columns? Probably the most ambitious and serious attempt to hunch the future was the Carnegie Corporation-financed Commission on the Year 2000, a gathering of distinguished scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which is the function of political will...