Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Cope suggested building the game around the Texas Instruments TMS1000 microprocessor. We had a Teletype terminal, which Lenny used to communicate with a computer somewhere in Pennsylvania on which Texas Instruments’ program for the device was resident. The monthly telephone bills that ensued looked like the National Debt.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 1, 2023

Imagine if engineers were required to build a working model to demonstrate every new technological concept to the general public. But he was fighting religious beliefs, personal grudges, and simple fear. An abridged version of this article appears in the April 2023 print issue as “ Feel the Thunder.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2022

Horowitz , director of Perry World House , at the University of Pennsylvania, warns “about the logic of AI and what it means for domestic repression. Even before the rise of AI, the design of common objects in our daily lives has often catered to a particular type of person. Fear of AI Robs Humanity of Its Benefits.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials.

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