Word: advent
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...view, the advent of the fully creative machine will not arrive overnight but will continue to evolve in stages, as machine intelligence continues its progression up the skill ladder. The first computers were designed during World War II with pen on paper and assembled by hand with screwdrivers and wiring tools. Today a computer designer sits at a graphics terminal and specifies sets of high-level design parameters. The computer performs dozens of intermediate design stages of circuit schematics, board layouts and even the chips themselves. Then other computers actually build and assemble these components into working systems. The tasks...
...COMMON COLD: Forget all those lurid statistics constantly peddled by the Goody-Two-Shoes lobby about the common cold's toll of billions of lost man-hours. See it in human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only to malinger without...
...started in the labs. The advent of AZT and other HIV drug treatment protocols meant HIV-infected people were not necessarily doomed to a rapid and painful death. But many in the international AIDS community began to depict that silver lining as an entire silver cloud, joyfully proclaiming the end of the plague and effectively lowering our collective guard against the disease...
...recent years, the rigorous demand for research in academia and the advent of managed care has put the medical school structure to the test. Accountability for actual clinical and research work as well as the expected level of productivity has increased in the profession...
...advent of the Internet can help bridge communities, but it's not a cure-all." Bane said. "I think that makes people-to-people contact that much more important...