To: Sigmund who wrote (1052 ) 1/10/1998 4:00:00 PM From: Frank Buck Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Sigmund,industrial-revolution of the 1800's was a pivotal time in the development of labor-history and progress, so too will this current integrated-circuit era become the next chapter-heading in societal development.acceptable losses . Yet isn't that an oxymoron? fire-tempers-the-steel , not the other way around. Given time the economic incentive to get it right will prevail. One only has to look at the the long-road of "technological-developments" that we have since come to accept. A note-worthy example, calculation and calculators: Look how long the time table spanned starting with the almost 17-hundred year old abacus, Pascal's (17th-century) mechanical adding machine, Babbages (19th-century) analytical-number machine, punch-card adding machines, slide-rules, this century's development of the ENIAC and EDVAC, right up to the silicon-chip with its logic gateways and such. A wrong calculation from a flawed chipCan Automation CURE the Pap Smear? By Dorothy L. Rosentahl, M.D., F.I.A.C. makes some interesting observations. They are that:should be the thread that unites this splintered-group. Introduction of automated procedures to clinical cytology should under no circumstances lead to a lowering of standards of performance. An automated procedure, in principle, [should] not expose any patients to new risks, nor should it increase already existing inherent risks. ENDgeneral populace will continue to accept whatever method is provided them. As mentioned before, the economics or the end-reward should provide the incentive to continue refining, until the numbers are acceptable to all. intermediary development of augmenting automated assisting technologies such as AccuMed develops, should fill an important slot in the evolutionary time-table, culminating in automated primary screening. auto-assisting stage occuring before the fully-automated primary process.
