computer age

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“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics,” Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics, said in 1987.

From Barron's

Featured in “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982,” the illuminating recent Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition, is Cage’s “HPSCHD,” from 1969.

From Los Angeles Times

There were other problems that she inherited as well, including a certain backwardness in adapting to the computer age and a failure to adjust census taking to demographic changes like the proliferation of nontraditional households.

From New York Times

That happened at the onset of the personal computer age, when a clutch of brilliant young scientists and engineers employed by Xerox at its Palo Alto Research Center, the legendary PARC, invented the personal computer.

From Los Angeles Times

Dangerous androids have played influential roles throughout film and pop culture history, especially recently, as the rapid advancements of the computer age have made robot-apocalypse scenarios feel more and more plausible.

From New York Times