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Never before has the light bulb, once considered the most innovative creation of the past 100 years, created so much hysteria. Run for your lives, the lights are on at Wrigley. Yogi and the fat lady can start singing now. It's going, going, gone...
...squeak when it first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines. Two decades ago, when a GE representative tried to sell a new engine to Donald Nyrop, then president of Northwest Airlines, the executive pointed to a ceiling fixture and wisecracked, "Whenever I want a light bulb, I'll pick GE's. For jet engines, I'll stick with Pratt & Whitney!" Nearly all jet airliners built at that time, notably the long-range Boeing 707 and shorter- haul McDonnell Douglas DC-9, were powered by engines carrying Pratt & Whitney's eagle emblem. GE, despite success in developing high...
...flight-tested the UDF on the prototype for its next midrange plane. But perhaps GE's moment of poetic justice really came last May, when Northwest Airlines, the diehard Pratt buyer, decided to buy 120 of the CFM56 engines. That must have prompted a few smiles at the light-bulb company...
These experiments illustrate the paradox at the heart of today's computer science. The most powerful computing machines -- giant number crunchers possessed of speed and storage capacities beyond human comprehension -- are essentially dumb brutes with no more intellectual depth than a light bulb. At the other extreme are computers that have begun to exhibit the first glimmers of human-like reasoning, but only within the confines of narrowly defined tasks...
...article on tax reform and directed him to a chair in the corner of her office. But within minutes of returning to deskside, the client was gesturing so violently with his arms that he walloped a lamp, sending it headlong into a wall and shattering the bulb. Said a sympathetic Lee: "This is the worst tax year possible...