Word: robots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funk-rock score is blasting so loudly that it vibrates spectators right out of their chairs, and its 27-member cast is whizzing by on roller skates at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h., attired in what looks like a cross between medieval jousting costumes and high-tech robot gear, Starlight Express is surely one of the most astonishing spectacles in the annals of the stage. If likely to baffle and frustrate regular theatergoers, it may also enthrall brand-new audiences, especially those under the age of reason. Inspired in equal measure by the roller derby, Coney Island fun fairs...
Another embarrassing case involves neutral Sweden, which forbids the sale of its arms to countries at war. The Swedish arms firm Bofors was reported last year by local newspapers to have sold several hundred Robot 70 portable ground-to-air missiles to Iran between 1983 and 1985. Last month the Belgian daily Le Soir reported that Swedish customs officials had sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division...
...opening night "Robots and Beyond" experienced a few glitches. But what computer show would be complete without glitches? Observes Bob Carlson, a traffic manager at Gould Electronics: "Computers are a lot better than they used to be, and I think they'll get better than people in some respects. But they won't replace us." Jorel agrees. "No robot can tie a pair of shoelaces or understand as much language as a three-year-old child," he intones. "You humans are marvelous...
...such things sound familiar to you, or has the world advanced so exponentially these hundred years that our common sights are fossils? Futurologists guess about your life, drawing pictures of robot doctors, television sets that one can talk back to, cars that park themselves. There must be more to you than that...
...auction should bring in somewhere between $15 million and $30 million, which will help pay off the fair's $216 million deficit. Some of that cash will come from Expo 86 officials themselves. Expo Ernie, the stainless-steel and acrylic computerized robot that served as the fair's mascot, was acquired by Expo President Jim Pattison. Price...