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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychotic Robots. In the larger, "biological" sense, there is room for nervous speculation. Some philosophical worriers suggest that the computers, growing superhumanly intelligent in more & more ways, will develop wills, desires and unpleasant foibles' of their own, as did the famous robots in Capek's R.U.R.
Some practical computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach...
Philadelphia's staid old Girard Trust Co. livened up its 112th annual report last year with Helen Hokinson cartoons gently kidding the customers (TIME, Jan. 31). With this sprightly innovation, Girard Trust won the 1949 "Oscar of Industry" award for the best financial report of any U.S. financial institution...
What lifts Tight Little Island above its own high mark of insular drollery, and turns its chuckles into laughs, is its mastery of the visual gag. The picture moves quietly but surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to...
¶ A writer should never stop work on the job of creating his own character.