Word: computerization
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Businessmen are building up their stocks more slowly nowadays because two of the old motives for heavy inventory accumulation are missing: 1) there is little need to order from suppliers long in advance, since industry is operating well below capacity; 2) there is less pressure to buy now as a...
Plugged Brain. Sure enough, within 20 pages the supersensitive reflector picks up a complex series of dots and dashes speeding earthward from the Andromeda constellation, a thousand million million miles away. Excitedly, Fleming discovers that the elaborate code is written in binary arithmetic and contains the design for an electronic...
When one of the 6,500 transistors or 45,500 diodes in the machine's control unit fails, a duplicate component takes over instantly. A few thousandths of a second later, the machine has diagnosed its own ailment and an electric typewriter starts clacking out a coded description. A...
Engine or Computer? Underlying all arguments about mental v. physical work, said Cornell University's Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., is the question. "What is work?" Using the physicist's definition,"A force acting through a distance," work done by the heart could be measured in relation to...
The result of Thornbrough's accent on overseas markets has been spectacular: Massey-Ferguson is now No. 1 in farm implement sales in Britain, France and Scandinavia and accounts for virtually the entire tractor market in such emerging nations as Ghana, Ceylon and Nigeria. Thornbrough has also revitalized Massey...