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What is happening is not only believable but inevitable. In the words of science-fiction Writer Ray Bradbury, "It's pure sci-fi." Across the country, "these magical beasts," as they have been called, are assisting hassled, often incompetent teachers. They are revivifying soporific students, dangling and delivering intellectual challenges beyond the ken of most educators. Says Bradbury: "Millions of buildings' worth of mostly outdated literature and information will be stored on tiny capsules for retrieval when needed. There's too damn much paper around anyway...
Some 250 chips are made from one razor-thin wafer of precisely polished silicon about 3 in. in diameter. These wafers, in turn, are sliced from cylinders of extremely pure (99.9%) crystalline silicon, grown somewhat like rock candy. Why silicon? Because it can be either electrically conducting or nonconducting, depending on the impurities added to it. Thus one small area of a chip can be "doped" (as scientists say) with impurities that give it a deficiency of electrons-making it a so-called p (or electrically positive) zone, while an adjacent area gets a surplus of electrons to create...
...human intuition. What happens after that? Dartmouth President John Kemeny, a pioneer in computer usage, sees the ultimate relation between man and computer as a symbiotic union of two living species, each completely dependent on the other for survival. The computer-a new form of life dedicated to pure thought-will be taken care of by its human partners, who will minister to its bodily needs with electricity and spare BILL PIERCE parts. Man will also provide for computer reproduction, as he does today. In return, the computer will minister to our social and economic needs. Child...
...sale to be pure coincidence," he added...
Fisher emphasizes that he is not teaching pure conflict-solving theory, but a theory of how to deal actively with international problems. "In most courses students come in, sit down, and say 'Do it to me, teach me,' like it was a massage parlor," he says. "Here they have to take an active role, and that requires a lot more concentration and effort...