Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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In the Federal Building jury room and then in the Palmer House hotel, the jury of ten women and two men argued and horse-traded for four days before reaching a verdict on the charges against the Chicago Seven-which were that they had conspired to incite a riot during...
...suburban Chicago manufacturing executive, was surprised a year ago when he received a citation charging him with a parking violation in Chicago; his car was not in Illinois at the time. In response to his polite letter of protest, the clerk of the circuit court sent Fischer a computerized notice declaring that payment of the fine was due. He wrote a second explanation. The computer replied with another message demanding $5. The fruitless ex: change between Fischer and the machine continued for four months, leading to a curt notice saying, in essence: pay up or face arrest...
Fischer, who has had five years of experience with computers as a vice president of Mid-Continent Screw Products, finally realized that he would have to deal with the machine on its own terms. Using a computer available to his company, he dispatched punch cards to the traffic violations bureau...
The bureau's computer could appreciate that kind of talk-and so could the machine's human programmers. One year after the correspondence had begun, Fischer received punch cards in return and fed them into his machine. "Dear Human," read the printout, "at last I have found somebody...
In the never-ending scramble for a rapid dollar, Wall Street speculators can be moved to frenzy by the vaguest rumor. Their response to every economic fad and fancy is almost a conditioned reflex. In the uranium boom that followed World War II, the magic words atomic and nuclear rang...