Word: computerization
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Like many scientists before him, Caltech Graduate Student Thomas McCord was searching for other answers when he made his unexpected discovery. Curious about the odd behavior of the planet Neptune's two moons, Triton and Nereid, he set out to make a mathematical analysis of their unusual orbits. Last...
At long last, Engineer Richard Foy has it: a computer in his bedroom. In his house outside Los Angeles, he has installed a Teletype-like machine that is wired into a central computer, which Foy must share with up to 350 other users. For five hours each month, at a...
Computer: Can you think of a specific example?
For the addict of pop-psych, this exchange only raises the question of what the computer itself stands for. Machinery, according to some more-or-less-experts, "is always an alternate to sexual procreation." This idea is borne out by the current intellectually fashionable bestseller Giles Goat-Boy, in which...
Then, of course, it is also possible that a computer is just a computer, even as a cigar is just a cigar.