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Kinsey's own emotion about science may blind him to one of science's shortcomings: the great difficulty it has in dealing precisely with the emotions of human beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

All the Answers. Designed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co., the Skysweeper is the highest point so far in the development of radar-controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Duck Hunter | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Somehow, I feel that McGee might have slipped his point across effectively with this same cast, if he had made his lines and situations a bit more subtle. A boarding house with a crew of eccentrics is a fine setting, but using television to represent the machine age and comic...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty | 11/13/1952 | See Source »

Each one of these dots can hold what computer men call a "bit" (short for binary digit) of information. If charged, it is considered a "one"; if uncharged, it is a "zero." By arranging ones and zeros in a code, a string of numbers, letters or words can be stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crystal Memory | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

The radio & TV networks hope to end the suspense as quickly as possible on election night. In order to detect instantly any significant trends in the voting, CBS has arranged to use Univac, an all-electronic automatic computer known familiarly as the "Giant Brain." Because it is too big (25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Univac & Monrobot | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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