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...improve storage of and access to information for statistical uses. It would not have an interest in building up dossiers on individuals." A vigorous opponent of the data center, Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders), cited a case in which a department store refused to hire a man because his computerized record showed that at the age of 13 he had stolen $2 worth of fishing line. Argued Packard: "The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer." Seconded Charles A: Reich, Yale professor of constitutional law: "We are establishing a doctrine of no second chance...
Neither Packard nor Reich apparently fully realizes the versatility of a computer. In its own way it can even be programmed for Christian redemption, taught to forget in any desired period of time. But until Congress is convinced that adequate safeguards for protecting the individual's privacy are in...
> After long testing of remote-control electrocardiography under routine conditions, including transmission of the signals by telephone line and computer evaluation, the U.S. Public Health Service is ready to extend its hookup from Washington to the emergency room of Connecticut's Hartford Hospital. After receiving the ECG signals, the...
> Psychologists at Pensacola Naval Air Station now give pilot-training candidates an aptitude test by punch keys and computer in 45 minutes, as against two days with pad and pencil.
Brute-Force Buttonhook. The fuel problem arose during Gemini 10's tricky fourth-orbit rendezvous with Agena 10. To determine the final thrust required for the interception, Young and Collins used data from the on-board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the...