Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convert to some bizarre religious cult. Her parents believed that she had become estranged from them after falling into a lesbian relationship with Thiemann, a friend from high school days. Her daughter was under a form of mind control, said Marita Riethmiller, and "had become like a robot, glassy-eyed." When several doctors, psychiatrists and church groups refused to intercede, the Riethmillers sought out controversial California Deprogramming Specialist Ted Patrick, 52. Patrick, however, is forbidden to take on clients as a condition of probation on an earlier conviction related to deprogramming. So he referred them to Naomi Faye Goss...
...factory robot that crushed a man to death in Japan last year did little to silence the talk that machines are a threat to human preeminence. That talk has been alive ever since people first discovered that they could manufacture tools vastly superior to themselves; in Samuel Butler's satire Erewhon (1872), the citizens establish a museum of old machines in which they at once deposit and abandon their mechanical inventions, which they believed would swallow up their souls. When machines possess artificial intelligence, like computers, the human fear of being overtaken seems both more urgent and more complex...
...capabilities show about our own. In other words, a computer may not display the whole of human intelligence, but that portion it can display could do a lot more good for man's self-confidence than continuing reassurances that he is in no immediate danger of death by robot...
...latest press conference, Reagan made fewer errors than usual. He glanced at notes (a crutch that must have bothered an actor good at remembering his lines). But as he says himself: "I have never claimed to be a whiz kid, a robot, a bionic adding machine or a walking encyclopedia...
...seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...