Word: nook
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...wondrous, and immensely profitable, link between the electronic brain and the mechanical hand. It is a link that stretches from the designing room to the shop floor, and its simple aim is to boost sagging American industrial productivity. The key is the insertion of computer intelligence directly into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing, the infant technology is already firing up a billion-dollar market of its own, as well as beginning to alter the very meaning of work for blue-and white-collar employees alike...
...with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook)" and the whole class would snicker...