November 16, 2018
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to Arbuta McKee who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
What ends in a W, has no beginning, and is always in the present?
ANSWER: Now.
Enjoy!
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
HINT: (1859-1939), British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality.
RANDOM TIDBITS
In July 1981 Japanese factory worker Kenji Uraba became "the first known fatality caused by a robot."
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Grace Hopper coined the term computer bug when a moth shorted out her computer.
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The distress signal before SOS was CQD, which meant "come quick danger."
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The first email was sent over the Internet in 1972.
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In 1995, personal computers outsold televisions in the United States, and the number of e-mail messages exceeded stamped letters.
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In 1997 about one third of American homes had computers. In 2005 the number was two thirds.
Weekly Mind-Scrambler
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
ANSWER: Havelock Ellis.