Paradoxes and Oxymorons | Compare and Contrast
1981: International Business Machines introduces its personal computer for the home market, and in the first year and a half 136,000 are sold. Shortly after an entire industry of “PC clones” begins.
1997: Deep Blue, a 32-node IBM supercomputer, defeats World Chess champion Gary Kasparov.
1981: A number of near-miss nuclear accidents occur. The USS George Washington, a submarine carrying 160 nuclear warheads, collides with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea, and an American Posiedon nuclear missile being removed from the USS Holland is...
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