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AAs they entered the 21st century, people could not help looking back to the past
20 years when they managed to cope with a new threat– the computer. By the year
of 1980, computers had become a fact of life. They were, the magazine DISCOVER
noted that December, “in cars, offices, schools homes, toys watches. In
some airplanes, pilots need not handle the controls; they are‘flight managers’
who watch the computer manage the flight landing. On the way are
voice-driven typewriters, robots that can ‘see’, hand-held computers that
can over the contents of the Library of Congress.”But at the same time,
observed the writer John Leo, a large number of Americans were “computerphobes”
(电脑恐惧者) “techno-peasants”, who feared that computers were “designed to
destroy privacy, eliminate jobs, carry the TV generation even further away from
literacy, read few words on food boxes so that the grocer can cheat his
customers more easily, allow World War III to be launched entirely by
technical error.”Some executives especially hated computers, Leo reported.
They worried that they would lose status – their assistants –if they were
seen at keyboard. Publishers journalists, he continued, were frightened that
the printed word would be eliminated. “True, the newspaper travels well–you can
not put a computer under your arm while rushing for a train,” he wrote, “Not
now, but a more advanced complicated portable version, about the size of a
hand-held electronic game, may not be far off.”Today those same executives
journalists who feared computers wouldn’t be found without having their
portable computers on their laps. The widespread fear of computers seems a thing
of the past–a shift that Leo correctly predicted.”Every one will accept
computers,” he wrote, “because there is no alternative.”The magazine listed the uses of computers
in the following fields EXCEPT __________.aeducationbtransportationcpublicationdmedicine
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