Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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But there is a difference between a smoker who ignores the Surgeon General's warning and someone who develops cancer passively just by being born into the electronic age. People live near power lines and work with their noses in computer display screens because those things are part and parcel...
Meanwhile, ordinary citizens can exercise what is called prudent avoidance -- doing relatively easy things to minimize a possible risk. This is not the time to sell, tear apart or rebuild a home. But it might make sense to shift a child's bed away from the electric line that brings...
4. Video-display terminals. People spend whole workdays close to computer screens. The should stay 75 cm (30 in.) from the front and 90cm (3 ft.) from the sides and back. The same rule applies to TVs.
The name of this computer exercise is SimEarth -- The Living Planet, a new $69.95 disk for Macintosh computers that offers something no other program can. It not only shows how life may have evolved on earth, but it also let me do the one thing I've always wanted to...
And what a feeling it was! By pointing and clicking my electronic mouse, I could pick up a square of green from one corner of the screen, drop it on a barren stretch of land and watch it blossom into a prairie. I could sprinkle the forest primeval with dinosaurs...