Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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3) Resist actively, sabotage, jam the computer . . . hijack planes . . . trash every lethal machine in the land.
An outspoken dove, Drinan blended new technology and causes with the old techniques of ward politics. Fifty young campaign workers oversaw a house-by-house survey that reached 75% of the Democratic voters in his district that includes liberal Boston suburbs and rural upstate towns. The canvassers fed the householders...
Most telling, perhaps, was the fate of a proposal that recognized the potential role of computers in simplifying and speeding the work of Congress. Legislators find themselves increasingly inundated by tons of laboriously produced reports. It was proposed, therefore, that a computer data bank be established to provide prompt and...
Because the bill called for a joint House-Senate committee to have jurisdiction over the computers, the House rejected them, fearing that the acquisitive "other body" would eventually gain primary control of the machinery. Thus the House declined to enter more fully into the computer era, long since inhabited by...
The Cambridge Project controversy ended in at least a technical victory for the radicals. The Project, funded by the Defense Department, was designed to use computers for basic research into social science methodology. Radicals charged that the product of the computer research would be used for counter-insurgency operations. Liberal...