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Five years ago a Norwegian statistician set a computer to work counting history's wars. The machine quickly, competently and a bit contemptuously announced that in 5,560 years of recorded human history there have been 14,531 wars, or, as the computer pointed out, 2.6135 a year.
No More Roaring Metal. The Reading plant, says Roy Thompson, is a "cross between a laboratory and a hospital. No more of that hot, roaring metal. The typesetters wear ordinary clothes to work and don't spatter themselves with oil." The copy desk is just a few yards from...
Pouring out of the computer at 600 words per minute, the justified tape is passed into three Photon machines. Controlled by the holes in the tape, light passes through a whirling glass disk on which the alphabet is printed; letters are automatically selected and words recorded on photographic paper.
Just Cordwood. An old story to most big U.S. industries, automation is still a source of pride and wonder to the packers who are using it to transform basic operation. The biggest change has come about in in the production and marketing of processed meats --51;sausages, hams, frankfurters and...
Crime & The Computer