Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chain saws. Many middle-income families are traveling hundreds of miles to buy top-quality merchandise at rock-bottom prices. Says Jim Randall, a Connecticut real estate developer who in 1980 launched a factory-outlet shopping center in Norwalk: "This is not a fluke. Today's consumers are smarter and more value-conscious than ever, and will do their shopping at a place that offers good quality at low prices...
...smarter than the rest of the guys. We try to keep away from them," Woodring says completely deadpan...
...definitely six feet under - in the beginning," says Perkins, ominously adhering to a studio order not to reveal the plot before the movie comes out next year. As for Norman, "In the old story he saw himself as a victim," says Perkins. "He's a smarter guy now. He realizes he has the potential of being dangerous." Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the shower...
...last an article on computer intelligence that does not waste time worrying about what to do when computers get smarter than we are. Roger Rosenblatt is right in saying that a machine can think only in limited terms. But he understates the point of my book What Computers Can't Do and so sets the limits too high. I argued that computers will never be able to understand even simple children's stories of the sort easily comprehended by any three-year-old. In light of such limitations, people who worry about the advent of even mildly intelligent...
...code phrase for this was "historically impossible," as though history itself-rather than a group of curators, critics and dealers-were engaged in majestically dictating what should be seen. In the 1980s, bored half to death by the austerities of minimalism, a now much larger (though not necessarily smarter or wiser) group of art consumers wants recognizable images and fictions of involvement; so we are inundated by painting that makes reference to the human figure. This is "historically inevitable." Impossible, inevitable: it only goes to show what a flighty tart that old muse of history...