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, physician offices, and pharmacies. Everyone will learn from Wachter’s intelligent assessment and become a believer that, despite today’s glitches and frustrations, the future computer age will make medicine much better for us all.” —Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Chair, Departments of Medical Ethics and
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. For those of us whose formative years were spent rummaging through shoeboxes, how could we help but greet healthcare’s reluctant, subsidized entry into the computer age with unalloyed enthusiasm? Yet once we clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on us that something was deeply wrong. Why were
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and Tecco decided to launch the organization while sitting in Harvard Business School’s Rock Hall. Chapter 26 The Productivity Paradox You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. —Nobel Prize–winning MIT economist Robert Solow, writing in 1987 Between the time David Blumenthal stepped down as national
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. Dougherty, “Google Buys Lift Labs in Further Biotech Push,” New York Times, September 10, 2014. Chapter 26: The Productivity Paradox 243 “You can see the computer age” R. M. Solow, review of Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy, by S. Cohen and J. Zysman, New York Times Book Review
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becoming smaller and more affordable: pocket calculators, video games and, crucially, personal computers. The arrival of NEC’s PC-8001 in 1979 inaugurated the personal-computer age in Japan. Alongside miniaturization, Japan was moving rapidly towards digitization. Most consumer products such as washing machines came equipped with ‘micon’, the microcomputers or microcontrollers
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news veteran not easily impressed. But when Masa, still only 24, presented him with a business card marked ‘CEO’ and started talking about the new computer age, Kawashima took note. After several exchanges over lunch and visits to the SoftBank office, Kawashima suggested that his colleagues at Asahi Weekly write a profile
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1983, General Motors and Japan’s Sumitomo Special Metals each announced the invention of neodymium-iron-boron magnets, a monumental breakthrough just as the personal computing age was dawning.44 All this growth did not go unnoticed by Wall Street or by China. In 1977, the Union Oil Company of California, known
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-grandfathers. Perhaps the publishers felt that a novel written in 1907 in a somewhat dated 1927 translation would not appeal to the teenagers of our computer age. The sad truth is that some of the juvenile classics I re-read had lost their old magic, at least for me. But not this
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by van K. Tharp · 1 Jan 1998
1750 (that is, in about 250 years). The next doubling took only about 150 years to the turn of the century. The onset of the computer age reduced the doubling time to about 5 years. And, with today’s computers offering electronic bulletin boards, DVDs, fiber optics, the Internet, and so on
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.0039 + 0.0271 − 0.0794 − 0.0907 = −0.1391 12 750 2 3 An argument that no longer makes sense with the advent of the computer age. See, for example, the portfolio return shown below. 38 Asset and Risk Management Table 3.1 Classic and logarithmic returns Rt Rt∗ 0.0039 0
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the affected things will affect, and so on. This type of reasoning is nothing new; people have been doing it since the dawn of the computer age. Programmers sit down and reason about their programs for many reasons. The funny thing is, we don’t talk about it much. We just assume
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by Peter Meyers · 9 Feb 2012
. The Secret of Grisly Manor ($0.99). This app is one of the best examples of what some predicted would happen to novels in the Computer Age: They’d turn into audience-piloted explorations of richly illustrated worlds. Behind each door, and within each room, users could inspect objects, chew on clues
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, but it was the best metaphor they had. Somehow information entered the brain and the brain-machine determined how the body should react. During the computer age, the brain has been viewed as a particular type of machine, the programmable computer. And as we saw in chapter 1, AI researchers have stuck
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