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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alcoholics were to recover, what would happen?" Kilbourne asked. "It would devastate the alcohol industry. The heavy user is the best user...
WHAT is the moral of this story? In the ongoing quest to achieve "user-friendliness," computer makers such as Apple have given us simplicity in place of comprehension. Although smiley faces, frowning faces, and cutesy language like "mouse" help people overcome their initial jitters with machines, manufacturers won't allow users to understand anything remotely technical. Macintoshes are so easy to use because we have no idea how they work...
Other new features in the Harvard On-Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) include a call-number search which will make it possible for a user to find books by their Dewey decimal numbers, Tallent said. He said students will also be able to use a "trace" command when looking at a listing, so they can find other books on the same subject...
...used safely. But he is convinced that nontoxic, nonaddictive drugs can be devised, even though "the research may require the same effort and cost man put forth to go to the moon." The utopian intoxicants he envisions would provide pleasure or stimulation within limits but would not cause a user to lose control, nor pose any danger of overdose. Such wonder drugs may be years away, Siegel concedes, but he notes that molecular chemists have developed hundreds of new psychoactive compounds that are still waiting to be tested...
...Bennett also fervently advocates getting tough on casual users, through punishments from boot camp to community service to the loss of driver's licenses and student loans. "In many ways, the casual user is a more significant carrier of problems than the addict," he says. "That person by example often suggests that you can do drugs...