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That day came two years ago, when the Pentagon decided it needed a new version of the old spy plane. It would incorporate the latest "stealth" features as well as updated electronic snooping capability that can peer sideways over borders and transmit data-including TV-type pictures-directly back to military commanders on the ground. Twenty-five TR-ls will be built at a cost of $550 million. Thanks to Johnson's premonition, the bill will be a tidy $10 million less than it might have been had he not squirreled away those old tools...
...strange part is the air of pleased surprise and originality that attends each rediscovery. It is always odd to realize how short the collective memory is. Evidently, in times of tumblingly surreal change in the world, the human does not transmit from parent to child certain basic lore and procedural data. Knowledge that any peasant instinctively possesses now arrives at the front door in a burst of light, like revelation. A doctor who opened a free clinic for hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the late '60s found that his patients were showing up with...
...human being but to do a human's work, and for that it needs mainly a guiding brain (the computer) and an arm with claws for fingers. The computer is simply plugged into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot: "A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices...
...relief is on the way. Several companies are working on voice-operated terminals so that bosses can transmit information by literally talking to their computers. International Resource Development Inc., a Norwalk, Conn., market research company, predicts that such machines will be available by 1983 and in general use by 1989. Other experts say that executives will soon be able to operate a machine simply by touching it. An executive wishing to see his morning mail might only have to tap a picture of an In basket displayed on his screen. Doing so would tell the computer to print...
...center then relays this command to the body. Although the body does not actually move left, it sends a message to the frontal brain indicating that it moved. But the movement is not always so simple as turning left. Because the eyes are not actually seeing, the messages they transmit are garbled and incomplete, and often call for impossible movement such as flying. The bizarre images in dreams, says Hobson, are simply the brain's attempt to make sense out of nonsense...