Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolster education, with special emphasis on science and engineering. Everyone agrees that U.S. industry will have an increasingly tough time putting out quality products in a high-tech age if workers are poorly educated, or even illiterate. The Government should provide loans to help school systems revamp their facilities, and federal educational programs like Head Start should be expanded to include all disadvantaged children. Washington should give special grants to universities to subsidize increased salaries for science and engineering professors and scholarships to attract students into those fields. Moreover, the Government needs to launch a ten- year program to refurbish...
...into 60% of American homes, according to Nielsen. A study by Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research firm, found that the typical VCR household rents 4 1/2 movies a month, and such viewing has almost certainly cuts into network ratings. More insidiously, the VCR -- and its high-tech sidekick, the remote-control unit -- has encouraged a new, more active method of TV viewing known as "grazing." A survey published last month by Channels magazine found that 75% of all TV homes have remote-control buttons, and nearly half of the button pushers say they switch channels frequently during programming...
...Apollo--for inspiration. Then, NASA had a sense of mission--to put an astronaut on the moon--and a game plan on how to reach its goal. Technologies developed for the Apollo program benefitted the general populace in the form of micro-chips and high-tech insulators. Apollo became synonymous with American can-do ideology: "If we can put a man on the moon, we can do anything...
Such pranks enrage the original Core War programmers. McIlroy and his friends took care that their high-tech high jinks did not put other people's programs and data at risk. "I'm amazed at how malicious some of today's players are," says McIlroy, who is now a senior member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. "What was once a friendly, harmless game has deteriorated into something that is neither friendly, harmless, nor a game...
...fences in so many parks that now sometimes compete with the game in progress? "Look," he will answer in spite of himself, "I'm not some kind of Luddite, baying at change." And then he is off and running. "The screen is the most visible symbol of our high-tech age, and here it is, plunked down in this ancient coliseum. It's only been around for ten years or so. We need to determine its proper venue...