Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the real computer whiz kids are finally getting their due. In a new book called Hackers (Doubleday; $17.95), Writer Steven Levy argues that these "science-mad people" are the true heroes of the computer revolution. He traces the history of hackers from M.I.T.'s Tech Model Railroad Club, their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world...
...level, The Terminator is a hip retelling of the D Annunciation: Sarah is a blissed-out Virgin Mary, John is her divine son, and Reese the messenger angel sent to impregnate Sarah with the holy word. But there is plenty of tech-noir savvy to keep infidels and action fans satisfied. The violence is copious, clean and discreet. Director James Cameron (who wrote the script with Producer Gale Anne Kurd) has a superefficient editing style that uses slow motion, pixilation and infra-red opticals to make this the smartest looking L.A. nighttown movie since The Driver...
...combat the well-organized incumbent, labor supplemented its usual campaign tools-phone banks, flyers, canvassing-with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road...
...boldness and enthusiasm, that cannot be written into bills and dropped in a legislative hopper. The Democrats have not had a candidate who possessed those qualities since John Kennedy. Reagan has been a master of the intangibles, emerging as a leader of a new populism composed of whitecollar, high-tech, professional, small-merchant voters itching for an assault on the Washington royalists...
Meredith T. Stelling '82, the exhibits director, adds that, while the museum tries to satisfy "high-tech" audiences who provided much of the support, financial and otherwise, needed to develop the museum, the exhibits are generally geared toward the general public...