Word: superbrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does He Drink? The privacy problem has been intensified by the rise of the computer, the relentless superbrain that stores mind-boggling masses of in formation. Federal agencies have 3.8 billion personal records in 6,753 categories from passport applications to Social Security accounts- an average of 18 files for every citizen. State and local agencies maintain at least as many records, while private organizations store three times the federal total. The nation's largest credit bureau, TRW Credit Data of Anaheim, Calif, keeps records on 55 million people. The biggest private investigator, Atlanta-based Equifax, Inc has files...
Still, Audrey Rose seems sophisticated compared with Demon Seed. The trouble here starts with a computer scientist (Fritz Weaver) who is just too good at his job. Down at work he has created a superbrain named Proteus. At home, he has wired up a system that takes care of most of the household chores. This leaves Julie Christie, as his wife, bored and offended to the point of asking for a divorce, especially now that their child has died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably...
After reading "Superbrain's, Super-problem," we again see that if there's to be a future for North Americans, we have to conserve energy and live more modestly. Let's try it. It's not so hard...
...earlier. A thorough room-by-room search of the motel failed to turn up any other snipers. Said Police Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso: "Either there was only one, or another got away. The speculation might run the gamut all the way from negligence on the part of police to a superbrain on the part of the sniper...
...ever accused Jerome Herman Dean of hiding a superbrain under his baseball cap. He was just a fun-loving country boy who could throw a baseball past the best batsmen in the National League. Pitching for the Gas House Gang-the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1930s-Dizzy won 134 games while losing only 75. In 1934, he ran up an incredible 30-7 record; in 1953, he was elected to the Hall of Fame...
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