Word: robotics
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...battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good leg, Talbert didn't have any more. The robot-calm Parker took the set 14-12, the next...
Over five miles away, the scientists lay flat, listening breathlessly to the time signals announced over the radio by Chicago's Dr. Samuel K. Allison: "Minus 15 minutes, minus 14 minutes, minus 13 minutes. . . ." At "minus 45 seconds" a robot mechanism took over the controls and the watchers lived the tensest seconds of their lives...
...Widespread robot-bomb devastation, and the pressing need for clearance of areas, makes the immediate execution of a new housing program imperative," Finer continued. "Since the demand is so acute, the government will make socialized housing its first major step. In reality this will not be such a radical innovation for Britain, as even before the war the government controlled about one-half of public housing enterprise...
Modern machines can already see, hear, smell and calculate-and one day they may begin to think. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of Office of Scientific Research and Development, believes that a "thinking" machine (of limited intellectual capabilities) can be built. In the July Atlantic Monthly, he predicts a brain robot that will relieve man of much of the routine spadework of thinking. The machine he envisages is an electronic and photographic contraption which would store facts for ready recall, sort a man's ideas, even organize them logically...
...from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with Secretary of State Hull, and by the wholesale approval by the U.S. people of responsible internationalism. "What finally made me a fanatic," Vandenberg says, "was the robot bomb...