Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union can launch the first satellite, the first astronaut in space and the Second World War-winning T-34 tank, but it is behind -- perhaps as much as a decade -- in high-tech avionics, guidance systems and the whole range of electronics. But the Soviet designer is not stupidly proud. If someone has a better idea than he does, he accepts it. And that is what GRU activities in the West are all about...
...Gerorgia Tech vs. Central Michigan...
...that is in the hazy distance. In the meantime, the high-tech intrusion may change the city in unwelcome ways. "Quality of life" is a virtual mantra in Colorado Springs, and some see that aspect threatened. Ironically, some of the retired officers, who discovered the city's quiet beauty while stationed there, can be found grumbling about air pollution and traffic congestion. Others have noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal...
...novel Fahrenheit 451, Author Ray Bradbury foresaw the day when books would be replaced by various forms of high-tech entertainment, including soap operas in which the viewer could participate. Books are still very much with us, but in a twist of fate that even the prophetic Bradbury did not anticipate, a new computer game named for his book allows players to take part in--and influence the outcome of--a drama set in the police-state world of Fahrenheit...
Undaunted by these obstacles, educators and high tech companies are spending huge sums to prove the skeptics wrong Control Data Corporation reputedly invested almost a billion dollars in the computerized college curriculum, PLATO. With assistance from major companies, Brown, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and other institutions are each spending tens of millions of dollars in equipment and programming to "wire" their campuses. Against the backdrop of these developments. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science has launched a comprehensive review of how technology might be best put to use for research, administrative, and not, least educational purposes. It is high time...