Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake the notion that the law is coming ((comin')) up short in its inability to deal with intimate human situations...
...alive to hear of the Holocaust could march in the jackboots of authority without intense self-doubt; better to keep his voice among the voices, to speak out daily for these frail liberties, so misunderstood, whose existence, far more than any prosecution, marked us all as decent, civilized, as human...
...ranging from Morse's telegraph to an early Apple computer. Through re-created scenes and videos, the exhibition tries to capture the mood of each period during the information age, which has repeatedly confounded both the hopes and fears of society. "Our goal was to display technology as a human enterprise," says curator David Allison, "subject to all the foibles and failures of people...
...useful without expertise. With the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering tools at its disposal, the CIA could not accurately portray the disarray of the Soviet economy or predict the collapse of communism. Instead of making people redundant, the high-tech economy has only underscored the irreplaceable contributions of human knowledge and common sense...
...recent years computer companies have begun to sell software systems that emulate specific human expertise, raising fears that experts will be the next group to be replaced by computers. But there is little reason for concern. Unfounded claims that an artificial intelligence is around the corner date to the 19th century. The more likely result is that these new systems will extend, rather than replace, human knowledge, freeing experts to work on novel problems...