Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...closing of Manhattan's burlesque theaters ("an encroachment on the rights of free Americans"), was surprised to see a small box ad for her currently touring Harriet merged with a burlesque comedy ad in a Los Angeles newspaper. The result: "Helen Hayes, in Harriet, hot as a robot bomb, A Honey...
...Antwerp people close doors softly and talk in low voices. Hollow-eyed citizens, clinging to their homes, skulk through the ruined streets. Antwerp is a city of suspense-until suspense is broken by the thunder of guns and the put-put of V-1 robot bombs...
Beyond Iwo, the Japanese cannot hope to outguess the attackers. Chichi Jima might eventually be taken as a platform for launching robot bombs against Tokyo (615 miles away). The only thing the Japs can be sure of is that their home islands, soon to be mapped in detail by U.S. photo-interpreters, are the eventual objective. They cannot be sure whether the assault troops will come direct, or by way of the Kurils, Ryukyus, China or Korea. They cannot be strong at every point of possible attack. They can either spread their forces thin or concentrate them at the likeliest...