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...light for kitchen stoves." To prove that his predictions are not as far-out as they seem, Schawlow has built and will soon market a laser eraser, a model of which he has already attached to his own typewriter. When he makes a mistake, Schawlow merely presses a button. Zap! The laser completely vaporizes dark (and thus light-absorbing) typed words or individual letters, leaving the paper unscarred and with no rubbing to be brushed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Power & Potential of Pure Light | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...modern maladjustments it has a solution. PRESTO: you don't know which of your multiple identities you will choose, which of your many fortuitous opportunities you will take advantage of? BINGO: we put you into one of our sanitized, civilized, compartimentalized Eriksonian boxes and christen you "Identity Diffusion." ZAP: you now have an identity which is the state of not knowing just what your identity...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...ZAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1968 | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...Zap! Faster than a chartered 707! Pow! As powerful as Pappa Joe's Checkbook! Sok! It's the American Eagle! It's the Dove of Peace! It's Super Fraud! Who, disguised in beads and a turtleneck, leads a never-ending battle for touch football, New Camelot, and his own way! Bleah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1968 | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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