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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.electroni
Bgame, may not bE.far off.”Today thosE.samE.executives
journalists who feare
Ccomputers wouldn’t b
DfounD.without havinG.their
portablE.computers on their laps. ThE.widespreaD.fear o
Ecomputers seems A.thin
FoF.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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