Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff...
...Americans, half Ambolanders; three are women. (All are played by Bob Gunton.) These "historical events" serve as avatars and parodies of the looking-glass warriors, and most of them are perversely delightful. Mme. Ing, the patrician Borgia who rules Amboland, ends every discussion with the despot's stern logic: "Mme. Ing has won that argument," she purrs. U.S. Army Lieutenant Thibodeaux brags that the service "taught me how to fight and how to swear"-and then demonstrates just how poorly he learned at least one of those lessons as he expectorates a stream of hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon...
...Zhao's worried tone there is still a strong strain of optimism. Beneath his journalist's skepticism and the constant questioning of the logic of past Chinese policies, he retains, as Thomson says, "a faith in the ultimate outcome of justice in China--which means faith in China itself." Zhao still believes in the strength of the revolution. At heart, he is an unswerving Chinese patriot...
...guide all these potential changes will require a degree of ethical judgment and social organization that humanity has rarely shown any sign of possessing. Just as the computer itself derives, however, from the simple proposition that all mathematical logic can be reduced to various combinations of zero and one, these revolutionary upheavals in human society are clearly vis ible in the distance. Indeed, they can be seen already in the birdlike contraptions that poke their fiery beaks into the un finished steel frames at the Jefferson plant in East Detroit...
Office automation is proliferating, in large part, because the costs of "computing power" are dropping dramatically. The calculating capacity of computers costing $1 million in the '50s is today contained in microelectronic circuits costing less than $20. By packing memory and logic functions of actual computers onto pieces of silicon no bigger than a cornflake, electronics engineers and designers have been able to build computer-like intelligence into conventional office equipment. Silicon-chip technology is beginning to spawn such devices as typewriters that can recognize and identify misspellings, copiers that can memorize, store and retrieve documents, and dictation machines...