Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...phrase borrowed from computerese, virtual reality. It relies on the techniques of interactive computer graphics to create the illusion of navigating through exotic locations that seem as "real" as those of the real world. The scene I'm exploring was created by the University of Washington's human-interface-technology lab to run on hardware made by VPL Research, a tiny firm in Redwood City, Calif., that is at the forefront of the budding virtual-reality movement...
...have been compared with Andrei Sakharov. What is it about the higher sciences, in your case astrophysics, that leads some people to passionate advocacy of human rights...
...socialist regimes many famous physicists or natural scientists have been involved in human rights because science always requires independent thought. Even if you are an important man and you say something, nobody just believes it. If a scientist submits a paper to a journal, it goes to a referee for comments. But in the Communist Party they always say they are correct. This is very difficult to reconcile with the scientific approach...
...Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski has said he believes the desire for freedom may be a genetic characteristic of the human race, and I believe you agree. Why, then, have some civilizations been slower to implement freedom than others...
Ever larger human populations are poisoning and exhausting water supplies, leaving the world vulnerable to food shortages and outbreaks of disease. One threat: wars over water...