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Should astronauts be airplane test pilots, scientists, or a combination of the two? All present U.S. astronauts are primarily pilots, and a strong faction in the space business believes that their nerve, quick reactions and experience with flight controls are the indispensable attributes of a successful spaceman. Equally passionate scientists...
In a once barren valley nestled among the green hills of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II last week pushed a button and put to work Britain's newest steel mill-the Spencer plant of the government-owned Richard Thomas & Baldwins company. The new plant is designed to produce high-quality...
Over the summer the data collected by Lockwood-Greene was processed at an Army computer center in Maryland, which estimated the "protection factor" of each building and the number of persons each could shelter.
...their comeuppance when a computer misfires. Planes are accidentally signaled to bomb Moscow, and before they can be stopped, they have done just that. President Kennedy frantically calls Premier Khrushchev. Says Kennedy: "All day you and I have sat here fighting, not each other, but rather this big rebellious, computerized system, struggling to keep it from blowing up the world." Replies a chastened Khrushchev: "Yes, we both trusted these systems too much. You can never trust any system, Mr. President, whether it is made of computers, or of people...
Sunday, Leary told something of the origin of the Cambridge research group. The parts of the brain which direct awareness, he said, "usually alert us to game committments, and not much else. Everything outside and inside gets strained through the fifteen or so game patterns--computer programs--and literature, more...