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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From where we are now, 1960 looks just as Edenic as 1952 had: a time when a candidate could have run on pure optimism. We were smack in the middle of a full-tilt boom, with steady growth, full employment, no inflation, balanced federal budgets as a matter of course, a constantly rising standard of living, low crime rates, stable families. Yet over our heads, Sputnik was circling the earth, an implacable Soviet Union seemed to be on the offensive, and the worry was powerful enough to encourage John Kennedy to run for President warning of America's shrinking prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOTER ANXIETY: A CHRONIC CONDITION | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...vicious cycle has been set in motion. Parents who live through their kids produce children who grow up feeling they have missed out on childhood, a time when play, pure and simple, with all its lively, unstructured freedom, should be paramount. "If a child is totally immersed in ice skating, she may become Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EVERY KID A STAR | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...programmer, I agree that computers can mimic the human thinking process [TECHNOLOGY, March 25], but I disagree that they have a consciousness similar to ours. When our thoughts are quieted (as when meditating), we experience pure consciousness. If a computer's "thoughts" are quieted, it becomes inert and has the consciousness of a rock. Also, unlike most of us, computers are unable to create original "thoughts"--all their "thoughts" are based on previous ones. We humans, through our consciousness, are able to have original ideas that have little or nothing to do with our past experience. MORTON BECKLEY Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...amazes me that people would compare human thought to a pure number-crunching operation. Playing chess is number crunching; thinking is an entirely different game. Let me humbly offer a unique test for determining whether a computer can think. I call it the Dylan test. Build two artificial-intelligence machines exactly alike and load them with exactly the same software. Then put some Bob Dylan music for them to listen to. When one machine hates it and the other loves it, you have some real thinking going on. DELIO DESTRO Sao Paulo, Brazil Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Macs, which he had managed to persuade a McDonald's manager in Croatia to give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them out to the U.S. troops he would be visiting. That gesture was pure Ron Brown: part theater, part business, with an eye on self-interest and a generous touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JOYFUL POWER BROKER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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