The birth of the Second Visit is telling of the self-consciousness of a new era.
Cybernetics is never given the mention it deserves.
Popular enthusiasm for these projected futures also speak with a great deal of precision of concurrent anxieties vis-a-vis an intractable past, the specter of which continued to fuel and to delimit imaginations of the future.
a blue print for a progressive future
raises questions as to the relations of human beings to the centrality of the silicon chip
reading “At Middle Age,” a story about a human doctor, alongside “The Curious Case,”
Ding Xueliang, at that time a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard
disappear without a trace
soar among the clouds
the smell of the alcohol also lingers in his nostrils
The terrified Little Smartie shouts for help, only to find that the fire is soon “extinguished” by his hosts who have simply turned on the lights in the living room –– the fire was just another image on TV, but holographic as opposed to two dimensional.
blur the boundaries between the space of information and the space of living.
The surface of a holographic film would no longer present a point-to-point two-dimensional image of an object as with ordinary photograph
the expansion of wireless radio broadcasts
the accessibility of TV sets to ordinary households
reduce
the human body into an instrument no different from other digital processing
devices
a series of heated discussions began with a volley
of severe criticisms
As with most of her generation, she was
indoctrinated with the belief that
it is only a derivative from the pursuit of her own
interest.
In (no the ) June of 1980
in the same guise
has no need for eating and drinking, for resting and consuming, and no parents nor siblings or any social relations to tend to.
her gentle demeanor
What puzzles Professor Shen is the question of how
to name and measure the girl’s services, which have brought him so much
enjoyment but don’t seem appropriately passed off as low-level manual labor.
Dr. Liang’s “unprofessional” behavior aroused
suspicion from his colleague.
To Gu, “modern medical science is the accumulation
and gist of western medical knowledge,” which brooks no contradiction.
(eg1. They are so entrenched in their positions they brook no questions, and are immune to new data.
eg 2. he would not brook dissent)
diseases that even medical books pronounce incurable
the
play makes of the blood transfusion Liang’s all-purpose remedy to his patients
in danger
in
accounting for the difficulty of developing expert systems, it was often
bemoaned that
the issue of whether
Toffler and Bell are quick to dispense with manual
labor as “inferior” forms of labor
books restricted to limited circles of high Party cadres
philosophical thought intellectual ferment (no "s")
disillusionment with
books restricted to limited circles of high Party cadres
philosophical thought intellectual ferment (no "s")
disillusionment with
