Word: robotics
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Mariner is only a distant relative to the manned Mercury capsules and the Russian Vostoks that have already orbited the earth. It is a remote-controlled robot, and it is traveling toward the far reaches of space-far beyond man's still limited reach. But it is carrying the most sophisticated scientific cargo yet sent aloft. Its complex instrumentation is a U.S. triumph...
...refunds. "We can program this thing," says Clinton Walsh, chief of the IRS's management branch, "to do just about anything we want it to do." The computer system has already been pressed into service to process business tax returns from the seven Southern states, even writes businessmen robot letters if they pay too much or too little. But the taxpayer has a period of grace before the impersonal and sleepless computers go to work on the entire country in 1966-and the IRS is using the interim to 156.8 psychological advantage. "As a word to the wise," says...
...attacks against Japan, developed the Strategic Air Command as the carrier of nuclear deterrent, and still has deep faith in manned aircraft no matter how fast the art of the missile has advanced. LeMay argues that a man can operate better in the inevitable confusion of combat than the robot brain of a missile. For the advantages of manned aircraft at whatever speed or altitude, he has only to point to the recent experiences of Astronaut John Glenn, who personally took the controls of Friendship 7 when the automatic equipment performed erratically. Even more important, if radar were to pick...
...black boys" who clean up the ward and push the Chronics around. "She wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hairlike wires too small for anybody's eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants...
...throws out his chest and brays: "Sir, a doolie is that insignificant whose rank is measured in negative units, one whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K turning base, three green...